Category: WordPress

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Bye-Bye WordPress

I’m not really leaving or running away… well, maybe a little bit… I just think it’s time to come to the realization that WordPress, as much as it has provided for some definite improvements in my life is not something I am actively involved in anymore.

The community has, for the most part, been supportive although it has changed… and not necessarily for the greater good although the project itself has not greatly suffered all the same.

I’ve also noticed some good people are no longer really involved in the current ecosystem and it seems many that are will just be finishing up their current projects and or fulfilling their current role duties before moving on completely as well.

I do wish those involved with WordPress all the success although I only see my future involvement along the lines of “developing as a creative”.

I still see and believe “Code is Poetry” and without any pressure to produce, the sheer pleasure of coding is returning again.

Bye-Bye WordPress… until we meet again.

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Jetpack local Environment Patch

I was reading a recent article on WPTavern and thought to myself, “Hey, this is a great little plugin but doesn’t Jetpack already handle this?”

More or less it does but there are a few “local” conditions that may have been over-looked and I thought I would offer a patch to pick up on some of those conditions.

Currently Jetpack looks to the site_url() for its conditional test on whether or not the TLD has a “.” (dot, period, point, etc.) which is all well and fine but what about “.dev” or “.local” or even certain IP address ranges that are considered “local”?

My initial patch was just expanding the existing conditional statement to include the “.dev” and “.local” extensions but after some discussions I also included a filterable case to also be available for the environment test conditions.

Here’s a link to the pull request on GitHub, what do you think?

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wp_get_shortlink() Should Always Return a URL

It was about two years ago that I noticed there was a minor issue with how wp_get_shortlink handled things with the default permalink structure. This is what I wrote in my original ticket:

Currently the code used in the link-template.php file causes the wp_get_shortcode function to return an empty result if the WordPress installation is using the default permalink structure. This causes at least issues with the_shortcode function and can be expected to cause issues any place that wp_get_shortcode is called when the default permalink structure is being used.

Obviously this was not a pressing issue but it was fixed on the 25030 Changeset. Props went out to sillybean, layotte, and cais (me!).

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Empty Page Title Not Handled in Menu System

“Empty Page Title Not Handled in Menu System” seemed to cover what I found about five months ago (as of this writing according to the WordPress Trac system). Simply put, if you had a page without a title and you used that page in your WordPress navigation menu you could expect to have some issues with its display.

Several comments later; a commit by Mark Jaquith today; and, these issues are well taken care of now … cool! I’m happy to have been part of the process.

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WordCamp Toronto 2013

It’s on … and, yes, I am involved with the event as a co-organizer.

WordCamp Toronto 2013 will be held in the fall at a well known and historical Toronto location. The full details of the date and the venue will follow soon …

This year, the current WordCamp Toronto Organizers team members are, in alphabetical order:

Obviously the official announcements will be easily found at the official WordCamp Central site: http://2013.toronto.wordcamp.org/, but we will also be making use of the official unofficial WordCamp Toronto site at: http://wcto.ca where you will be able to see WordCamp Toronto as it is planned … and be able to participate in those discussions.

Some important points to note with this year’s version of WordCamp Toronto:

I am looking forward to an exciting next six months as we plan, organize, and have a great deal of fun presenting WordCamp Toronto 2013 …
… and I am looking forward to seeing everyone there, too!

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Organizing WordCamp Toronto 2013 by Andy

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Ready, Willing, and Able

I just released Opus Primus to the WordPress Extend Themes repository; or, in other words Opus Primus is in the theme review queue and hopefully will be live within the month.

This was a project I spent a great deal of time on with no regrets. It did not interfere with my ability to provide WordPress services to my existing clients nor did it stop me from taking on more clients, but it did keep me busy between “paying” projects. Now, with Opus Primus in “waiting to be reviewed” mode, I once again have “free” time to review new project offers.