June 10th, 2008
For those who’ve been using/developing WordPress sites for a while now, you probably have become quite reliant on knowing the actual id number of posts and pages, as well as categories, especially for customizing navigation, as well as creating category specific templates. You probably have also been equally frustrated at them being removed from the admin in 2.5+, I know I have. Well, leave it to the community to solve a problem. Nick Ohrn has cooked up a nice little plugin that replaces these ids, without seemingly compromising the layout of the page one bit. Certainly a worthy plugin for your dev toolbox. Once a site is developed, you could easily turn it off if you are concerned about confusing users, and then activate it as needed for follow up work. However, it certainly is much easier than mousing over each page and writing down the ID, especially on page heavy sites.
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January 3rd, 2007
Circle Six Blogs
For those theme designers out there on a Mac, this Textmate bundle just might push you to make the plunge and purchase Textmate if you haven’t already. This code bundle gives you handy snippets of the most common template tags as well as support for several plugins, including Ultimate Tag Warrior. Quite handy indeed. Now one only needs to do is frame out their XHTML and CSS, then go back in and add relevant tags, much simpler than copying and pasting, or working with a dummy framework and editing the multitude of ids, classes, and spans. While your at the site, you might want to check out their Mac theme development workflow as well.
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November 19th, 2006
As the old saying goes, better late than never. So goes our second installment of interviews with members of the WordPress community. Our first, way back in the beginning of the year was with Skippy. Though it was well received, life and other online endeavors got in the way, and the idea fell far to a back burner. However over the past few months it kept creeping its way back up, and I began looking around for someone who’s been active in the community, yet hasn’t received some of the attention that perhaps others have. Not an easy task, as there are numerous contributors to the WP community that deserve some spotlight. That said, Mark Jaquith (also can be found at Mark on WordPress) has shown more and more on my radar. From his video tutorial on how to write a plugin to his many contributions to the core code development, Mark is continually giving back to the community.
In addition to his many contributions, I’m quite excited about the prospects of him
moving to my neck of the woods, and getting a WordPress meetup going, but I digress. I approached Mark on his willingness to answer some questions to help put a person behind the code.
Enough rambling, WordPress Station is proud to present a recent email interview with Mark Jaquith.
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February 11th, 2006
Postcards From My Life
This isn’t quite a plugin, rather a function for a plugin. Bunny discusses the advantages and possible dilemma’s of a plugin “phoning home”. If more plugins had this feature, I might just be out a blog 
Anyway, if you are a plugin developer, you may want to pop over and further the discussion, or better, incorporate the function into your own.
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January 22nd, 2006
WordPress Development Blog
Ever wanted to give back to the application that makes your blogging life easier? Got coding skills? Just looking for a way to volunteer? Matt put the call out on this week via the development blog (in case you missed it in your dashboard), looking for all types of help in furthering WordPress. Broken down by areas of interest, head over to the codex and find where you can contribute.
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