The Moscow WordPress Meetup Group is growing and we recently held our third meetup, which was quite a success! We had a total of 12 attendees (including a 5 year old kid) and 4 presentations, around 30 minutes each:

• What’s new in WordPress 3.4
• Building a Wiki with WordPress
• The GNU GPL Explained
• An Into to HyperDB

We met on a Saturday morning and the weather was perfect, everybody seemed to enjoy it, so let’s hope this thing keeps growing. Got a great deal of positive energy and inspiration, exactly the kind of stuff I need before my trip to Bulgaria :)

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If you’re not yet using wp_nav_menu to build your navigation menus, then, uhm, wake up! Also, the snippet relies on the body_class usage in your theme, and if your theme doesn’t use one, uhm, wake up! :)

I also want to avoid the discussion about how the primary navigation should be consistent through each and every page on the website, if at all possible :)

Clients often ask for fuzzy, non-standard, maybe weird and not always logical permalink structure for their sites. If you’re now working with such a client, consider yourself lucky, because the brand new Rewrite Rules Inspector plugin is here! Props to the WordPress.com VIP team :)

Speaking of defaults, NEVER SET DEFAULTS IN THE DATABASE. Not ever. The theme options you store in the DB should always, always, *always* be something the user has selected. If the user selects the default, then that’s fine to set in the DB. but you don’t set it in the DB just because it’s not set at all. get_theme_mod has a second option for the default value. So does get_option for that matter. Use this.

Otto Wood, WordPress Core Developer on Custom Admin Screens

Thanks, Otto, for clearing that up :)

Jetpack 1.3 has been released, and it now ships with the Grunion Contact Forms plugin, the very same forms plugin that’s running (behind the scenes) on WordPress.com. The update fixes a couple of small bugs as well. You should be able to download it from your Dashboard very soon.