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In this article, we’ll look at writing documentation for a WordPress plugin, theme or product. Most of the information can be applied to documentation for other software types, but we’ll look at some WordPress-specific aspects. In my experience, the quality of documentation in WordPress plugins and themes varies widely.
From poorly documented plugins with one-line readmes to products with user guides, developer APIs and in-depth screencasts, you’ll find every type of documentation in the WordPress ecosystem. Many plugins and themes are built by developers who don’t have the time to write documentation or don’t have the money to pay a technical writer. http://sswi.me/MZTOj7 via @smashingmag
Let’s see what we got: WordPress as this flexible, easy to use Open-Source blogging and CMS system. More and more mobile devices flooding the market every day and being extremely popular. Plus the need of more beautiful designed and coded WordPress themes for users to choose from that will work well across all these different devices. So what are we waiting for? Let’s get to work!
At first the idea of designing and developing a fully responsive, mobile-ready WordPress theme can be a bit overwhelming and you might think: How am I going to handle the responsive design with all this flexible content a WordPress theme has? What do I have to consider when designing for touch devices? And do I really have to get rid of drop down menus and other hover elements on mobile devices? http://sswi.me/LIgHdq via @smashingmag
There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS files and even some server-side solutions.
But even if you use such plugins, using internal caching methods for objects and database results is a good development practice, so that your plugin doesn’t depend on which cache plugins the end user has. Your plugin needs to be fast on its own, not depending on other plugins to do the dirty work. http://sswi.me/NOgPbG via @smashingmag
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The absolute best thing about WordPress is how flexible it is. Don’t like it? Change the theme. Need added functionality? There is probably a plugin you can download or buy. If not, built it yourself! You can change pretty much everything about WordPress. In this article I’m going to go over some easy ways to customize WordPress that you may not know about.
Learn how to add image sizes, change sidebar markup, modify pre-published content, customize the author’s comment box, and much more. This concise guide shows you how to customize default WordPress functionality with any or all of these techniques. http://sswi.me/Nk6lR0 via @smashingmag
The WordPress community recently reached a huge milestone in its development, having earned its 60 millionth user on November 2011, according to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg in an interview at the GigaOM RoadMap conference in San Francisco last year. Backing up that huge global community of WordPress administrators is a rapidly growing band of developers who create plugins and themes for the software, currently over 15,000 plugins according to Mullenweg’s statement at State of the Word 2011.
This community of developers has created one of the most extensive array of themes for the WordPress content software, with numerous websites sprouting up around the Internet solely to offer their unique designs to customers who would rather not learn the ways of CSS, XHTML, PHP or even search engine optimization (SEO). http://sswi.me/MYzj8V via @smashingmag
