Tag Archives: Code

Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Adding Plugins

January 31, 2008 – 10:36 pm

Thank you for joining me again for this series on maintaing WordPress from subversion. We talked previously about creating an SVN repository and then about importing WordPress into the SVN repository.
Today, we get into customizations. It does us no good to have an SVN repository with WordPress if we don’t change it to be something [...]

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Maintaining WordPress on SVN: Import WordPress into Your Repository

January 30, 2008 – 10:04 am

Last time, I talked to you a bit about setting up a clean subversion repository for your WordPress build. Today, I want to take that a step farther and help you bring WordPress into working copy and commit it into your repo.

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Expression Engine WXR Export Class

January 26, 2008 – 11:36 pm

Earlier, I shared with you a new base class I’m releasing into the wild. While that was a conceptually nice piece of code, and potentially useful, it didn’t really translate in usefulness without some actual code.
As mentioned, I just moved Shai to WordPress from Expression Engine and it required writing a custom export routine. Instead, [...]

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Twitter Pitch!

Twitter pitching is a form of pitch that requires succint "what does this mean for me" kind of pitching. It is the ultimate efficiency of words. You have 140 characters or less to tell me why your pitch matters to me or my readers. Please include a means of contacting you. This is included in your 140 characters. If you send successive pitches, you will likely be ignored, unless it's obvious that the first pitch was a case of "accidental send", etc.

This form of pitching does not mean I'm being a diva. It means that my time is valuable, and you want a piece of it. It's good practice for you, and delivers your pitch in a format I want. Win-win.



Twitter Pitch Me!