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wp_enqueue your scripts and styles.

The ease of making a WordPress theme is both a blessing and a curse. It allows people to get started with programming relatively easy – most hosting providers have PHP / MySQL, and the majority have a WordPress quick-install. However, this easiness comes with a dangerous pitfall – it’s easy to do the wrong thing. The classic example of this is query_posts (hint: never use it). Today, I’ll talk about wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style.

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Turbolinks and WordPress

Rails Turbolinks is pretty cool, right? I thought it would be pretty cool to use it on WordPress, too. There are probably a lot of bugs, and it probably doesn’t work well with JavaScript-heavy sites. I’ve included the jQuery compatibility layer, but it’s still not perfect. Use at your own risk. To install, just search the WordPress plugin repository for “turbolinks” Or, available for download here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-turbolinks/ Contributors welcome!!!

Facebook: Pop-in.

What do you do when you have a Facebook app tab (inside an iframe, mind you) that’s externally linkable? Pop-in. Let’s break this down. if (self === top) { This conditional will be true when the browser is not inside an iframe. window.location.href = 'https://www.facebook.com/test/app_1234'; If we are not inside an iframe, then redirect to the following URL.