Possible site speed-up feature
The news is that WordPress released a performance plugin that could offer “Near-Instant Load Times”. Danny pointed this one out to me. It looks good. WordPress released an official plugin that adds support for a cutting edge technology called speculative loading that can help boost site performance and improve the …
An incomplete BuddyPress codex
To keep all of my notes in one place, I have started a public site for my BuddyPress development notes. This is a personal and incomplete codex and is found here on Matrix Dreams. I am accepting contributions but honestly don’t expect any.
Proposal: BuddyPress Developers Stack Exchange
The WordPress stack exchange gets a lot of BuddyPress questions and yet this is an off-topic tag. However, I and many others (I have no doubt) have many questions (and the ability to answer many questions) about BuddyPress development. I propose a new SE for BuddyPress development. Who is with me? …
Things Itemised Plugin
I have added a new plugin for beta testing – things itemised. Things itemised is used for making lists. Each list is created so that all members of the blog can add items to it but the display code is set up so that each user’s list is a separate …
Popper v Bootstrap gotcha
I encountered a bit of a gotcha while working with Bootstrap and Popper recently. Although both javascript libraries were enqued, when I checked the consol I saw this: Uncaught TypeError: Bootstrap’s tooltips require Popper.js It turns out that the order of enqueuing matters. This works This does not The difference …
New features coming
Author Buzz has some exciting new features coming soon. I have been working on the largest plugin yet which will add a unique game to the author buzz family. Initially, it will be limited to a new blog that we will create to play the game. However, once that phase …
The AB Theme Framework
Author Buzz UK are working on a new WordPress Theme Framework specifically for authors. One of the things to come out from the work we have been doing for Author Buzz UK is that many themes only mostly fit the needs of writers. If you add in the need for …
5 things WordPress.org really needs to start doing
Today was nothing if not frustrating. I spent hours looking for ways to set up a simple user-badges system and got nowhere fast. Given the huge number of pre-existing plugins that cover this task, I thought (wrongly as it turns out) that I could simply install one of them and …
Grumpy Dev on WordPress
It seems to me that everything about WordPress, BuddyPress and the like are written in such a way as to be so mind numbingly hard it might honestly be easier to get a vogon to write good poetry. Last time, in “The World’s Grumpiest Dev” I talked about how much …
WordPress Plugin Framework Creation
One of the challenges for Author Buzz was that we need a lot of different functions and features without polluting the plugin list with a large collection of things that blog users cannot directly access. Our ideal solution would be to wrap all the features into one plugin. However, we also …