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I wrote this as a post for a friend a bit ago with the intention of cleaning it up to publish at some point. I kind of like the informality, so I’m mostly leaving it as is. Enjoy! Reading core code was a big step in becoming a better WordPress developer. I remember having a … Continue reading Becoming a better WordPress Developer
As I write this, we have the WP REST API enabled for 1083 sites across 54 networks on our single installation of WordPress at Washington State University. It’s probably worth noting that this only counts as one active installation in the WordPress.org repository stats. 🙁 It’s definitely worth noting how we use it! 🙂 Our … Continue reading How we’re using the WP REST API at Washington State University
Daniel asked for official feedback from WordPress core committers on the REST API. Here goes. 🙂 I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the last week since last week’s status meeting. And I think I can sum up my thoughts in a nutshell now. I’m in favor of the REST API team’s proposal to … Continue reading Thoughts on merging the WP REST API plugin
The ability to embed WordPress posts in WordPress posts is a pretty sweet feature from 4.4 and I’ve been looking forward to finding ways of using it throughout WSU. Today, when I tried it for the first time, I got an error because of our strict X-Frame-Options header that we had set to SAMEORIGIN for all … Continue reading Configure Nginx to allow for embedded WordPress posts
You may have heard by now, through tweet after tweet after tweet—we’re hiring for a WordPress developer position at Washington State University. If you have any inclination to apply, you should. We’d love to talk to you about what we’re doing and how you’ll help. I’d love to work alongside you and continue to build … Continue reading We’re hiring a WordPress developer at WSU and you should apply
I thought I had a fourth earlier when I was thinking about this, but I guess not. Here are 3 super secret expert tips. There are probably others. 🙂 Attachment uploads don’t generate notifications If a tree falls…. Even if you add a note when uploading an attachment to Trac, no notification is generated. Make … Continue reading Super Secret Expert WordPress Trac Tips
I can be no good at plugins. My default answer is an easy “no” when a request is made at WSU to add one to our setup. Each plugin we install adds overhead as the immediate responsibility for maintaining security, performance, and support lies on the web team, not the plugin author. This is okay … Continue reading What WordPress plugins are Excellent++?
This is a brief rundown of the method we’re currently using at WSU to manage mixed HTTP/HTTPS configurations in a multi-network WordPress setup. Our assumptions: Sites that are HTTP (HTTPS optional) on the front end should be forced HTTPS in any admin area. Some sites should be forced HTTPS everywhere. This may be because of … Continue reading A Method for Managing Mixed HTTP/HTTPS Sites in Multisite
Two more months and the Pullman WordPress Meetup will be a year old! This is our 3rd release oriented meetup, so we’ve been around since the old days of 3.9. We timed tonight’s meetup perfectly with the release of WordPress 4.2 RC1 and I was able to show off each of the new features to … Continue reading Great WordPress Meetup showing off 4.2 tonight
The above is my talk about applying the open source ethos to sharing our work as a community in public land grant universities. I posted earlier with the full textual context and slides. You may notice that the talk description is very far off from the actual talk. 🙂 I originally submitted an expansive talk … Continue reading WCSF 2014 Talk: Public Universities and Open Source Software