Category Archives: Development

Readying Plugins for the New WordPress Admin Theme

by Austin Matzko on February 23, 2008 at 7:09 pm

The WordPress admin theme has been overhauled for the next version (scheduled to be released mid-March), which means that a lot of plugins’ admin pages could end up looking out of place.
Joost de Valk gives some brief tips on how to mark up plugin admin pages to take advantage of the new styling.
Unfortunately, as he [...]

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What You Won’t See in WordPress 2.5

by Austin Matzko on February 11, 2008 at 9:37 pm

One of the WordPress lead developers, Ryan Boren, announced today that WordPress 2.5 was going into “feature-freeze.” That means that the remaining month until 2.5’s March 10 release will be spent fixing the bugs in existing 2.5 features, not adding more.
And that’s a lot of bugs, as much of the admin redesign hasn’t yet [...]

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6 Tips for Localizing Your WordPress Plugin

by Austin Matzko on December 30, 2007 at 12:50 am

Localizing (or internationalizing) your WordPress plugin means making its text capable of being translated into other languages, without having to change the plugin itself. That’s something any plugin author should want to do, considering the huge communities of non-English-speaking WordPress users and the relative ease with which internationalization can be done.
Here is a list [...]

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