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Thoughts on 2015
Read more: Thoughts on 2015Yes, I know, another year in review type post…but for me this year has been profound in a variety of different ways. Today I finish up my 2015 working year, and return in early Jan, but it’s also the end of the first 6 months since Automattic acquired WooThemes. It’s been quite a time of…
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Why Themeforest authors why….
Read more: Why Themeforest authors why….So….all this commotion regarding the Slider Revolution plugin being bundled in themes has caused quite a few headaches for people. Myself included… I spent a fair chunk of an evening this week “updating” a friends (staging) site using this theme -> http://themeforest.net/item/chariot-professional-responsive-portfolio-theme/5817175 to make 100% sure it was secure. Here’s what I had to do… Backup…
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Jetpack Photon image_downsize() issue
Read more: Jetpack Photon image_downsize() issueSometimes in WordPress code you have the need to get an attached image, for example in a featured slider. To do this we make use of the wp_get_attachment_image_src() function. The reason we do this is to grab the image properties such as height etc instead of just the url in order to add a property for dynamic slide heights. However, there…
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Self Commenting Code
Read more: Self Commenting CodeSo…a colleague of mine, posted a tweet today about self commenting code. I briefly replied, along with others, and I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on “self commenting” code and standards. Whose rules are you following? First things first, who defines what is self commenting code? I guarantee you that different developers will…