It’s exactly this — an introduction, because I hope to inspire further exploration of interacting with WordPress through the command line. Similar to Scribu, I’ve found “the keyboard is faster than the mouse” for many tasks, and that developing proficiency with the command line has dramatically increased my effectiveness as a programmer.

So, I hope you take the time to check out wpshell and wp-cli (and ack, for that matter). Think critically about how they can improve your workflow, and let me know what you script up!

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Here at WordPress.com, we have over 200 themes (and even more plugins) running inside the biggest WordPress installation around (that we know of anyway!) With all of that code churning around our over 2,000 servers worldwide, there’s one particular WordPress function that we actually try to shy away from; query_posts()

If you think you need to use it, there is most likely a better approach.

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For the return, I flew north from Sunriver to the Dalles and then cut down the Gorge. One of the neatest things about this trip was having what’s called flight following. This is where either Portland or Seattle has you on radar the entire time. They’ll then give you traffic advisories if your flight path is crossing another plane’s. It’s also a nice amonut of banter to keep you company as you spend a few hours solo in the cockpit. The flight back took 2.1 hours.

These photos and videos are a bit of what I saw along the way (gradually improving my aerial photography).

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One of many highlights from last weekend was a quick visit to Afton Field Farm. Daniel and I stopped by the farm on Sunday afternoon to see what was going on. Maggie was visiting for the weekend, too, so after we arrived, Tyler warmed up their farm rig and we were off into the pasture. I’ve been to Afton Field Farm multiple times before, but this was my first full tour from Alicia and Tyler.

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Ad Code Manager is a plugin designed to help you deal with ad codes, those short snippets of Javascript used to display advertisements on your website. This week, Rinat Khaziev of Doejo, Jeremy Felt of 10up, and I pushed v0.2, which includes these improvements:

• Completely reworked user interface, one that now looks and feels like much of the rest of the WordPress admin.
• Abstracted ad network logic, so you can integrate additional ad networks. Currently, Ad Code Manager fully supports Double Click for Publishers. Pull requests with support for other ad networks are always welcome.
• In-plugin contextual help to get you properly configured.
• Priorities for ad codes, which allow you to work around conflicts.
• An [acm-tag] shortcode for placing ad codes within posts.
• A widget for placing ad codes in widget areas. Thanks to Justin Sternburg at WebDevStudios for the contribution.

Rewrite Rules Inspector is a simple development tool for viewing all of the rewrite rules registered with your site. It’s been available for VIPs hosted on WordPress.com for a while — today it’s available for download from the WordPress.org repository.

Specifically, the Rewrite Rules Inspector helps you:

• View a listing of all your rewrite rules.
• See which rewrite rules match a given URL (and the priorites they match in).
• Filter by different sources of rewrite rules.
• Know when rewrite rules are missing in the database by showing an error message.

Both plugins are available for forking in the Automattic Github repo, and pull requests are always welcome. Coming up next are improvements to Co-Authors Plus, P2 Resolved Posts, and a new round of development on Edit Flow…

It would be neat if you could include a quiz widget within the article. The reader could take the quiz which would test their knowledge and then suggest content based on their responses. The news organization would collect useful demographic data to refine their editorial planning.

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The modern online newsroom is a 24/7 operation. It needs power tools to work efficiently, like modern carpenters need electric drills to build houses. The problem is that most content management systems, including web-native ones like WordPress, Tumblr, etc, are intended for smaller organizations or slower-paced writing. Which is why I’m so interested in Vox Media‘s Chorus.

The rest of us have been stuck turning screwdrivers.

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Yesterday, Leah and I woke up at 3:30 am to go clamming with my dad. The series of fortunate events went something like this:

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I had the privilege of flying yesterday morning over the city I currently live in, Santa Barbara. And this has been possible thanks to my good friend Julien Lecomte, who just had his license.

After a night of bad sleep, I got up at 6 AM, packed my photo gear and drove to the Santa Barbara airport, where he was waiting for me.

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Beautiful images... I need to up my aerial photography.

Today’s flight along the coast was my first solo cross-country. Originating from Twin Oaks Airpark, I flew a Cessna 150, N66589, towards McMinnville and then onward to the coast. It took me to 1.1 hours to get to Newport where I landed, hung out for a little bit, filed a new flight plan, and then returned home in 1.0 hours.

Like I mentioned on Twitter earlier, there’s a really sweet app for the iPad called ForeFlight that allows me to plan my route, look up weather along the way, and file my flight plan. Here’s what it looked like for the flight down there.

Without an iPad, producing the flight plan takes about 10x longer than with. Such is the real-world value of technology. Of course, I have to do it the pen and paper way first because I’m “learning.”

Totally awesome…