Getting started on a new project is always exciting, but it often includes a lot of repetitive work, such as setting up the basics of your code that you need for any plugin, or downloading a boilerplate and filling in your project’s details. Yeoman...
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A Brief Look at Lean UX Design
What is Lean UX? Lean UX was born out of the Lean startup movement. The concept of ‘being lean’ is derived from Lean manufacturing principles, which essentially postulates [1]: “making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else.”
Read More A Brief Look at Lean UX DesignWDS Github Releases for April 2015
Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will be...
Read More WDS Github Releases for April 2015Use Git to Test & Update Your Plugins for WordPress 4.2
So, you get an email like this one every time WordPress publishes a new release. 4.2 just went out, so I got this email a few days ago. I’m not a serious plugin developer like most out there. They aren’t premium plugins;...
Read More Use Git to Test & Update Your Plugins for WordPress 4.2Using wp_cron (or “How to cron a cron that’s not really a cron”)
One extremely confusing set of functions within WordPress is the concept of “wp_cron“. For those of you unfamiliar with it, is a scheduling tool on Unix systems and, in itself, is not without its own confusing elements. Let’s take a more user-friendly example...
Read More Using wp_cron (or “How to cron a cron that’s not really a cron”)Brackets.io, How I Love Thee
Let me count the ways… I have been having a great time testing Brackets.io, the open source text editor by Adobe. Ever since switching from Espresso to Sublime Text, I have missed many of the preview features in Espresso…and then along comes Brackets.
Read More Brackets.io, How I Love Thee5 Tips for Managing Projects Efficiently
Every project tends to be unique in requirements, goals, and size, but you can manage almost every project using a similar process. The key is finding ways to managing your projects efficiently. You aren’t always going to have a project manager available to you; maybe...
Read More 5 Tips for Managing Projects EfficientlyReleasing Plugin Updates and Handling Security Vulnerabilities
In my last article, I walked you through getting your plugin up and running on the WordPress.org plugin repository. In this follow up article I want to talk about releasing updates and new versions of your plugin. I will also touch on the...
Read More Releasing Plugin Updates and Handling Security VulnerabilitiesThe Lonely Presser Guide to WordCamps
Have you ever used one of those Lonely Planet guidebooks? Yeah, me neither. But I’m told they’re pretty fantastic for getting the skinny about a particular place you might want to go. Like, really detailed, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-level detail, so that you...
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