Tag Archives: JavaScript

WordPress Core, WordPress Themes, WP API

A WordPress Starter Theme Based on JSON REST API's Backbone Client

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The past few months I’ve had the opportunity to work on the new JSON REST API for WordPres. My biggest contribution as a WP API team member has been the Backbone client.

The JSON REST API’s Backbone client let’s you interact with a WordPress installation using Backbone.js collections and models. The client is an extremely useful tool in creating reactive web applications (which seems to be where the web is heading).

As a proof of concept, I created a WordPress starter theme based on Automattic’s _s named _s_backbone. Loops (or post streams) in _s_backbone are driven by Backbone.js collections. This means that posts are grabbed on the fly without a page reload. Pagination is accomplished through a “more” button which, again, does not require a page reload. This is commonly referred to as “infinite scroll”.

Please download _s_backbone from Github. Any feedback is appreciated.

Edit: Check out the WP Tavern article on _s_backbone.

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Node.js, WordPress Core

Modifying core WordPress files is a quick way to introduce security vulnerabilities, break your site, and break future updates. From the perspective of a developer, nothing is worse than searching through a theme and plugins for a problem only to discover a previous developer modified a core WordPress file an introduced a bug.

I wrote a simple Node module that lets you easily check WordPress installations for modified or removed core files. Install the detect-wp-core-modifications npm package with the following shell command:

npm install -g detect-wp-core-modifications

You can run the command without any arguments from within the root of a WordPress installation with the following shell
command:

detect-wp-core-modifications

You can also specify a relative or absolute path to a WordPress installation:

detect-wp-core-modifications ../wordpress
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WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins

10up just released a new plugin called the Post Customizer. I, along with John James Jacoby, John Bloch, Drew Jaynes, and Carl Danley led the charge on the plugin. The idea of the plugin is to mimic the theme customizer for posts. The plugin adds functionality that displays an overlay when you click “Preview” within the post editor. The overlay has a sidebar allowing you to edit the excerpt and featured post. In the middle of the overlay is a frame that shows the front of the website. Within that frame you can edit the post title and content. This enables you to make “live” changes and to see how they look as you make them. There are other plugins that offer similar behavior. However, Post Customizer closely follows the Theme Customizer and thus WordPress standards.

We want to make this plugin super extensible, and we need all the help we can get. We would appreciate contributions! Fork the plugin on Github.

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