C’est une maison bleue – A few days in San Francisco

2 days from now, I will be in a plane, flying to San Francisco for WordCamp SF 2012. I am super lucky, I know.

Let’s get a few things out-of-the-way first:

  • I have never travelled that far before
  • I am already stressing about the jet lag: I don’t want to waste any time, I want to live every minute that I will spend there, and be my best for the WordCamp. You can’t chat and help around if you are sleepy!
  • I don’t know much about San Francisco: all I know, I have learnt from movies, TV shows, and books about startups in The Valley.

I won’t have much free time there, but I intend to make the best of it! But since I don’t know much about the city, I thought I’d ask you for help!

What to see in San Francisco?

Hide and seek with WordPress menus

WordPress 3.0 introduced a very useful feature: custom menus: if your theme handles it, you can add menus in different areas of your theme, without having to dive into code or install any plugin.

There is only one limitation to this: your menu is often added to your theme’s header or footer and the menu items remain the same on all pages of your site.

Let’s see how to work around this problem, and have different menu items depending on the page you’re on.

Let’s dig into this small tutorial!

Developer Plugin v1.0: Helping WordPress developers develop

This is a must-have plugin for all WordPress developers! Make sure you install it in your development environment.

One of the great things about developing for WordPress is the number of tools available for developers. WordPress core ships with a bunch of useful features (e.g. WP_DEBUG) with many more built by the community (like our own Rewrite Rules Inspector and VIP Scanner) that make development and debugging a breeze. The hardest part is getting your environment set up just right: knowing what constants to set, what plugins to install, and so on.

Developer Plugin v1.0: Helping WordPress developers develop

WordPress 3.4 is out!

Go download it now!