Compiling LESS Files

Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.  I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...

Packaging plugins with themes

As I develop a new theme, I want to package plugins with my theme.  Normally, plugins are installed under wp-content/plugins – but if you are distributing your theme, you need a clean, WordPress-familiar way of distributing the corresponding plugins as well...

Admin bar not showing

I am developing a new theme from scratch.  Came across an issue where the black admin bar (runs along the top of a site for Administrators) was not displaying.  Turned out that I had wp_head() called from within my header.php file, but did not have wp_footer() called...