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Refactoring and Autoloaders
Refactoring work on GitHub Updater and The Events Calendar Category Colors adopts PHP 5.3 namespacing and PSR-4 autoloading via spl_autoload_register, with class aliasing used to maintain backward compatibility across plugin versions.
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Private Bitbucket Repositories
An update to GitHub Updater reorganizes the Settings page so clients enter their own Bitbucket credentials, improving security by letting developers add clients as read-only users without exposing the developer password.
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Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 3
Recent improvements to GitHub Updater include privileged-user-only execution, spl_autoload_register for class loading, Parsedown for changelog rendering, a new Settings Page for storing credentials outside the repository, and a fix for a long-standing bug preventing Bitbucket private repository updates.
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Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 2
A technical deep-dive into how GitHub Updater scans plugin and theme headers, queries the GitHub and Bitbucket APIs with transient caching to avoid rate limits, and hooks into WordPress core update mechanisms with minimal overhead for both developers and end users.
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WCLAX
A short announcement about attending WordCamp LAX, with plans to bring a daughter along and hopes she enjoys it as much as her brother did.
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Automatic Plugin & Theme Updating From GitHub – Part 1
The origin story of GitHub Updater traces the plugin from its roots as a frustration with manually FTP-ing updates across multiple sites, through a series of forks and collaborations with Gary Jones, Seth Carstens, and Paul Clark, to a combined plugin-and-theme updater.
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The Events Calendar Outlook Import Fix
A WordPress plugin was created to remove the X-WR-CALNAME header from The Events Calendar iCalendar output, fixing the Outlook behavior of creating a new calendar instead of adding the event to the default one.
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Gaming during Vacation
A photo post capturing a moment of gaming while on vacation.
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Sporting a New Look
Tom McFarlin released his Mayer theme for WordPress.org sites, making it the first purchased theme for this blog, chosen for its embrace of the decisions-over-options philosophy that results in leaner, more efficient code.
