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Speed Up Your Genesis Theme by Reducing Database Queries
WordPress ships with a bunch of nifty methods to improve performance and knowing when to use one of them could cut the number of database queries on your site by over 60%. It has to do with the way post thumbnails are displayed in a loop. By default, whenever get_the_post_thumbnail() is called in the main…
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Introducing AudioTheme
A few years ago, we published a popular country music blog* and part of our duties required visiting band websites every day — back when MySpace was big and the primary online presence for many bands (we have the benefit of hindsight to see how that went). Helping artists with their websites was an idea…
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A WordPress Class Template Tag to Rule Them All
Last week, on Twitter… Yes, I know, that’s the beginning of a terrible blog post. But really, a tweet by Jonathan Christopher piqued my curiosity last week: https://twitter.com/jchristopher/status/273437718653050880 SMACSS? I hadn’t heard of it and figured it was probably some Mac-only app, but looked it up anyway. Lo and behold, it was actually interesting. I…
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Abstracting Custom Post Type and Taxonomy Registration In WordPress
Custom Post Types in WordPress are incredibly useful, but as a web developer working on a number of projects at any given time, it can be frustrating having to manually write out each and every label needed for display throughout the dashboard. While reviewing plugins and other projects, I’ve seen developers build libraries to abstract…
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Custom Post Types Are Not Posts
Custom post types are not posts. However, posts are a specific implementation of a CPT. As are pages. And nav menu items. And revisions. Oh, and attachments, too. Hell, at some point, comments could probably even be integrated as CPTs. Are all of these objects the same just because they’re CPTs? See where I’m going…
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Treasure Hunting In WordPress Core
As WordPress organically evolves based on the needs of the community — from blogging engine, to content management system, and toward an app platform — it’s become ever more important that its default behavior can be modified to suit a wide range of demands. The primary means of making customizations is through the use of…
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