Related Posts for WordPress uses multiple types of content to determine what is related. This includes titles, content, categories, tags. I wrote a post on what makes a post related on the Related Posts for WordPress website that goes into depth on how these different types of content are used.
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Category Archives: WordPress Development
Take the Pain out of Email Related Development
We’ve all had to deal with them in a project once, emails. This doesn’t have to be directly developing on emails, think developing on something that triggers an email. Now if there’s one thing I hate while development, it’s having to wait on something. And that’s what emails make me do. Wait.
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Check for nonces in WordPress AJAX calls
WordPress made using AJAX easier than ever. By simply hooking into one or two actions, depending on where the AJAX needs to be available, you can setup the PHP side of your AJAX. The JavaScript part isn’t much harder. With jQuery bundled in WordPress it’s easily done with one of the jQuery AJAX functions.
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Debugging in WordPress
So you’re developing with WordPress. Whether you’re working on your own plugins, themes or doing client work, you’ll eventually run into the need of debugging something. Most people will simply print the data they need to debug to the screen but I’m not a big fan of this. When working on WordPress, or any web application, I don’t want to search through the browser where the data/error is being printed. I want a separate screen where all my data is logged in a clear way.
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Test your plugins against WordPress 4.1
The WordPress 4.1 release is close, very close. The WordPress Core team hopes to ship WordPress 4.1 on Tuesday, December 16. That’s 5 days from now. If you’re the author of WordPress plugins and haven’t tested them yet for WordPress 4.1, be sure to do so before 4.1 is released.
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