To live one’s life is hard enough. Why write down all the misery? It would resemble nothing more than the inventory of a torture chamber.
— Franz Liszt, on why he didn’t keep a diary
From the book Daily Rituals, by Mason Currey
REST Development Console — now open source!
This is a great tool to get started playing with WordPress APIs.
For developers working with the REST API, the browser-based API console is an essential debugging tool. It allows you to test your API queries and interactively explore the results (or errors) that the API returns.
It also puts the documentation at your fingertips and allows you to build a custom query right from any method’s description.
Like the REST API itself, this tool works for any blog on WordPress.com and for any self-hosted WordPress install using Jetpack.
With the addition of implicit OAuth, we’ve released an open-source version of the API console that you can run yourself.
First, you’ll want to create a WordPress.com application (or modify an existing one) and make sure to set the Javascript Origins option. This should be the fully-qualified URL (including http:// or https:// ) of the site you’ll be running the API console on. To run it locally, just use “http://localhost”.
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State of Drupal (and WordPress notes)
Fundamentals of Theme Development
Have you ever wondered where The Loop and the Template Hierarchy come from? What happens behind the scenes in core to make themes do what they do? Find out in my talk from WordCamp Montreal 2013, “Fundamentals of Theme Development”, now up on WordPress.tv.
Tell Us What You Think
Let us know what you’d love to see on ThemeShaper!
We’d love to know what sort of content you’d like to read on ThemeShaper in 2014. Take our quick poll and let us know!
World-wide online protest against NSA surveillance
Do you have a blog on WordPress.com, and want to help send a message against NSA surveillance?
Go to Settings → Protest NSA Surveillance, and click the checkbox to show your support today on The Day We Fight Back.
CSS Flexbox model
Don’t really know what Flexbox is, but get the idea it’s going to be (is?) super awesome or important? Chris Coyier gives a great rundown in easy-to-understand (read: not W3C spec) language.
Stop fighting with CSS widths involving padding and borders
A year-and-a-half ago, Paul Irish wrote about the box-sizing property, and how one particular value could give you your life back (my words, not his).
If you’re not using it yet, start; then you can go back to spending time on IE8.
Read the article: * { Box-sizing: Border-box } FTW
Email forwarding on WordPress.com
The wait is over. I have cried tears of joy.
This past Monday, Automattic announced a new feature: email forwarding for your custom domain on WordPress.com. It is no longer necessary to manage a separate email solution for your domains on WordPress.com; forwarding can be set up from Store → Domains within your dashboard. If you already have another solution set up, just remove its DNS records to enable the native WordPress.com feature.
This removes the last frustrating roadblock to having an all-WordPress.com web presence. So go start that blog, or build that new site for your business, knowing that email for your domain will be as simple as everything else on WordPress.com. Hurray!
Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes
Christmas has came early for me.
On WordPress.com, you can use a number of shortcodes to embed features and create objects with little effort, and make your site look just the way you want. We’re excited to announce new shortcodes you can use to whip up a slideshow presentation — and display it on your WordPress.com site.
A sampling of features
- Selecting different slide transitions (up, down, left, right)
- Rotating and scaling slides
- Choosing colors or images for backgrounds (HTML color, image URL)
- Setting transition durations and sizes
You can see these features in action, along with shortcode instructions to get you started, in the sample presentation below. Don’t forget to view it in full-screen — just click the four-arrow icon on the bottom right corner.
We’re excited that you can use these shortcodes to create presentations, from simple slideshows to sleek, professional presentations. For more detailed steps, visit the presentations shortcode support page.
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