Posts on development — Page 14

A look at the WordPress shortcode API changes in the 4.2.3 security release — why some common patterns were never correct to begin with, and the right way to think about shortcode attributes and nesting.

Thoughts on Philadelphia being selected as the host city for the first WordCamp USA — and whether it's worth the trip when WordCamp San Francisco is already an annual tradition.

A roundup of the top Atom editor plugins worth installing — covering code beautification, docblock generation, linting integration, file icons, and a few other productivity boosters after switching from Sublime Text.

An introduction to Ghost Inspector, a record-and-replay browser regression testing tool that makes automated UI testing more accessible for small teams without writing Selenium tests by hand.

Release notes for WP Better Attachments v1.3.11 — adding a use_caption_for_title option, a second attachments button at the bottom of the meta box, and a PHP warning fix.

A candid look at the WP Better Attachments rewrite — the settings architecture debt, the case for spinning off the crop editor as an add-on, and thoughts on how to sustainably support an open-source plugin with thousands of active installs.

How to configure Apache Virtual Hosts in MAMP so each local project is accessible via its own custom .dev domain instead of navigating subdirectories of localhost.

A quick tip for enabling PHP error display in MAMP by flipping display_errors to On in php.ini — so you get real error messages instead of the white screen of death.

A comparison of Atom and Sublime Text after switching editors — where Atom shines with active development and HTML/CSS/JS extensibility, and where Sublime still wins on speed and search.