If you’re selling stuff online, especially digital goods, you can’t have missed this. European VAT laws will change January 1st 2015. Starting January 1st, VAT must be paid at the ‘place of supply’. This basically means that you have to charge VAT based on the country of your consumer, so a Dutch consumer will have to pay Dutch VAT (21%) in your webshop regardless of where your webshop is based.
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Maximum option and transient key length
If you work with WordPress you’ve most likely worked with its options. The WordPress Option API is pretty self explaining and easy to use. The WordPress Transient API is a little less known but also a powerful API that’s definitely worth taking a look at if you’ve never heard of it before.
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Blogging for Hippo
I’ve been wanting to blog more for a long time, I’ve lost count of the amount of times I said ‘I should blog more’. So I was pretty excited when we (the fine people at WooThemes) talked about setting up a blogging challenge.
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The importance of WordPress coding standards
With the size of the WordPress project and the gigantic ecosystem created by it, it’s important we (as developers) do certain things the same. Following the WordPress coding standards makes us ‘format’ our code all in the same way, while still giving us all the room for our own creativity. In this post I want to highlight some PHP coding standards, if you’re interested in the full list you can view the Handbook page on WordPress PHP coding standards here.
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Related Posts for WordPress 10.000 downloads and 1 month premium
Something really cool happened yesterday, Related Posts for WordPress passed 10.000 downloads! Passing the 10K mark plus all the positive feedback I’ve received over the past few months is (way) beyond the expectations I had when I launched the plugin in August this year.
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