Tom McFarlin

At this point in the series, we've covered a lot of ground. Up to now, we've discussed the following topics: Naming Conventions and Function Arguments ...

The entire purpose of this series to help expose the WordPress Coding Standards, why they matter, and how to write quality WordPress code. In order to do...

In this series, we're taking a look at the WordPress PHP Coding Standards in order further understand how quality WordPress code should be written. Sure,...

In this series, we're taking a deep dive into the WordPress Coding Standards - specifically, the PHP coding standards - in order to evangelize and understand...

Throughout this series, we've been taking a look at a few design patterns and how they are applicable to software development - specifically WordPress...

In this series, we're taking a look at design patterns and how we can leverage them to our advantage when building products on top of WordPress. The nice...

Throughout this series, we're taking a look at the significance of design patterns and the roles that they play in WordPress development. In the first...

For those who have an extensive background in software engineering, design patterns should be familiar territory; however, there's an entire group of...

In this series, we're taking a look at how to secure our WordPress projects from XSS - or cross-site scripting. In the first article in the series, we...

In this series, we are working on a plugin for the simple purpose of introducing a jQuery date picker into the post editor using a post meta box and then...

In the first article of this series, we looked at how a boilerplate can improve your development efforts by providing a foundation off of which your project...

Over the past five to ten years, building sites and applications for the web has become much more complex than much of the stuff that people were building in...