Imagine that you’re building a theme, and in various places in that theme you have small elements that you’d just love to content manage. It could be items in a footer, in the header, or for use as widgets. Things like a copyright notice, a credit line, some free form spaces and so on. In the past, coding for this… continue reading ⇢
I thought I’d share some of the functions that go into most of our custom WordPress themes. If you have your own favourites then get commenting! Removing the auto capitalisation of ‘WordPress’ When version 3.0 was released a fairly simple filter appeared called capital_P_dangit. This was committed to the core by Matt Mullenweg for the purposes of brand reinforcement. Suffice… continue reading ⇢
It’s hard to measure the cost of code. Simple stuff can be ferociously time-consuming to develop, and bad coders often produce reams of poorly structured code. But let’s assume you’re dealing with a typical, decent developer who doesn’t take the long route, or dangerous shortcuts.
I was reading through some project management methodology just now (yay! My life is full of joy at last!) and came across the phrase “The Wicked Problem” in this line on Wikipedia: Steve McConnell in Code Complete (a book which criticizes the widespread use of the waterfall model) refers to design as a “wicked problem” – a problem whose requirements… continue reading ⇢
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