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WordPress Admin Bookmarklet

Chris Coyier — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:15:15 +0000

Drag to your bookmarks bar, click, get a bunch of buttons for easy access to specific areas of your WordPress admin. No security concerns, other than taking people to your log in page, so assuming you have a good strong password you are fine. Also I suppose this assumes you have WP installed at the root…

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5 tips for using AJAX in WordPress

Chris Coyier — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:12:18 +0000

WordPress has a bunch of AJAX abilities built in that you can access, without having to use any outside resources. Gary Cao shows how, pointing out good and bad practices.

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WordPress vs. ExpressionEngine: Apples and Oranges?

Chris Coyier — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:38:21 +0000

Marcus Neto attempts to compares the two CMSs while explaining why he likes ExpressionEngine. Are they really apples or oranges? I suppose you could say that. Apples and oranges are both popular spherical fruit. They have more in common than theyhave different. Same with the two CMSs.

While I’m 98% a WordPress guy, there are a few circumstances I might take the EE route, like when:

1) I knew I was going to need a whole bunch of different custom data types and groups and didn’t feel like dealing with the whole Pods or Flutter setup.

2) I also knew no newbie client was going to need to get in there.

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PubSubHubbub Now On All WordPress.com sites (+ plugin for self hosted sites)

Chris Coyier — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:54:45 +0000

This is me trying to understand it:

Instead of services that read your feeds (e.g. Google Reader) having to ASK for your feed periodically, now they can instead just wait until YOUR SITE notifies THEM. Basically a “push” service.

It seems to me this is half the equation. The other half is building services that accept these push notifications. I’m not sure who is already doing that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is on it, since it seems like a more efficient way of doing things on both sides (less server resources on both sides).

Two concerns I can think of:

Is this just as reliable as the “old” way? People not getting feed updates because of a hiccup in the chain sucks for everyone.
This makes “accidentally” hitting that publish button potentially even more embarrassing than it already can be. Like when you accidentally publish a post instead of a page.

Also check the overview slideshow here.

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Add Link to Favorites Dropdown

Chris Coyier — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:36:06 +0000

This is basically a smarter way to handle the situation I just posted about. Using a function to manipulate the favorites dropdown instead of a core hack.

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Use BuddyPress, Keep your Theme

Chris Coyier — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:32:30 +0000

If you want to use BuddyPress (a massive plugin that basically adds a social networking layer to WordPress sites, think, forums, profiles, user blogs, etc) but you’ve been hesitant to try it, now is a better time than ever.

BuddyPress 1.2 now works with stand-alone WordPress installs (before you had to use MU) and you can even keep your existing theme.

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Rockin’ out WordPress custom loops

Chris Coyier — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:55:37 +0000

kristarella has a nice article on writing your own custom loops.

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Using HTML5 elements in Wordpress post content

Chris Coyier — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:23:06 +0000

Nicolas Gallagher:

Here are two ways to include HTML5 elements in your Wordpress post content without Wordpress’ wpautop function wrapping them in p tags or littering your code with line breaks…. Both ways rely on hand-coding the HTML5 markup in the Wordpress editor’s HTML view.

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Illustrated Article on Theme Building

Chris Coyier — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:14:06 +0000

Great crash course article on theme building from Chris Spooner.

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WooNav will be integrated in WordPress core

Chris Coyier — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:12:38 +0000

This is absolutely needed and will be an awesome upgrade for v3.0. Also watch the video.

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