Announcement: Winners of the Digging into WordPress book
Last week we posted a contest where you could win a free copy of Digging into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Star, a book about WordPress development.
Last week we posted a contest where you could win a free copy of Digging into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Star, a book about WordPress development.
We’re giving away two copies of the amazing book Digging into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr. The book is about WordPress and learns you how to create your first WordPress theme, and loads of useful practical information about WordPress development.
Until now, I have always created my custom meta boxes using this great PHP class. It’s nothing wrong with it, but when I first got my hands on the Advanced Custom Fields plugin, I was blown away. Not only is it extremely powerful, it is also very, very good looking and easy too use.
After building dozens and dozens of WordPress sites I have come up with sort of a boilerplate-functions-file I use as a starting point when developing a new theme. In this post I’ll share some of the snippets included in that boilerplate to help you boost your template production.
The work on WordPress 3.4 Alpha is already in development and will probably see the light of day sometime in 2012. I’ve created a list of some of the features/improvements I would love to see in this new version.