A couple of years ago I discovered some awesome plugins for Eclipse. It was by RockstarApps aka Bob Buffone, one of the plugins is the main reason I installed the plugin, It can minify stylesheets and javascripts within the IDE. Unfortunately the update site for these plugins is no longer a live, but this article tells you how to install them without the update site.
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Starting this year I decided to change some things for the AVH WordPress plugins. Most of the changes don’t have an impact for the average user but one change might have an impact for some of you.
For software development I use git as a source code management system and my WordPress plugins are no exception. The “problem” is that the WordPress plugin repository is a subversion repository. You can use git-svn but I choose a different approach. I use a shell script when I’m ready to release a new version of a WordPress plugin to copy the needed files to the SVN repository.
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As I am working on a new site for our local photography club I stumbled upon a small problem. I needed to add menu items to the main menu but only for registered users. WordPress doesn’t have the option, yet, to assign roles to menu items.
I know this “problem” can be solved by creating two, almost identical, menus in WordPress and show the members menu when a member is logged. In that situation you would need to maintain two menus in WordPress, if you add an item t o the general menu, you also need to remember to add it to the members menu. With two menus that’s not that big of a deal, but what if you want to have menu items for different roles or even categories.
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