I am currently beta-testing the upcoming WordPress 3.5 release (scheduled for December). One of the major features of the new release is the new and improved media management, deeply redesigned under the leadership of Daryl Koopersmith (@koop). In the words of lead developer Andrew Nacin: The biggest thing we’ve been working on is overhauling the…
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Sorting titles by last name in WordPress
Update (Feb 5 2014): I came up with a better method (github link), wrapping everything inside a function: I’m sharing here a little php trick I came up with for a recent WordPress site: I needed to create alphabetic listings of persons and order them by their last name, but at the same time, I…
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A list of my contributions (bug reports, patches, little improvements) for the WordPress 3.5 user interface.
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This post describes a rather simple use case of the Vimeo API in the frame of a WordPress theme. This practical example is taken from the Kunstraum Kreuzlingen website, for which I implemented a WP theme in early 2012. The objective What do we actually want to achieve? We want to embed a video gallery…
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This is a concept paper that describes a very simple plugin that handles event management in WordPress. Q: There are hundreds of plugins doing exactly this — why a new one? A: All the plugins I tested are more complicated than needed. I tried many of them. I think that my concept is more simple,…
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Bliscappen Van Maria
Website for super modern country ensemble Bliscappen Van Maria. Hand-crafted with WordPress.
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My first WordPress Core patch
A few days ago, I proudly landed my first patch for WordPress Core. It started with me being frustrated over a limitation of the wp_get_archives function, that can list the archives only in counter-chronological, not in chronological order — an obvious oversight from the early days of WP, when it was viewed as a simple…
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A quick and easy trick for controlling the appearance of the vimeo.com video player. Vimeo gives you various options when you manually generate the embed code on their website (font colors, showing or hiding of title, username, user icon). However, if you use WordPress and take advantage of the super easy one-line embed method, you…
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Fabmic.ch
A website for artists Fabiana de Barros and Michel Favre. Running on the WordPress content management platform.
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Working on a new cool website assignment, and studying the implementation of custom post types in WordPress 3. Some links I’m collecting here for future reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Post_Types http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type http://cogdogblog.com/2010/05/28/wordpress-3-pt1/ http://cogdogblog.com/2010/06/06/put-on-your-hazmat-suits/ http://kovshenin.com/archives/custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/ To be continued…
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