Best practices for A/B testing?

This is not a straight WordPress solution but I would recommend a/b testing feature found in the Google website optimizer. http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/b/index.html. It works with your analytics account. You just need to create two (or more) pages in WordPress.

Custom category order with get_categories

Exact order by category id on get_categories @EliChan, by using get_categories, I don’t think it’s possible to exact order by id if you use exclude. It is better if use include as parameter of ids order and orderby with value include. $args = array( ‘hide_empty’ => 0, ‘orderby’ => ‘include’, ‘include’ => array( 47, 44, … Read more

Multiple content areas per page

This sounds to me like a perfect use of Advanced Custom Fields “flexible content” feature to me. Flexible content fields allow you to define multiple layouts, and then add them to a page or post one by one, in any order or combination you need. Each layout can be a combination of text fields, images, … Read more

Win7 Dev Environment

I’d recommend setting up XAMPP. It will allow you to run an Apache/PHP/MySQL environment on Windows. You shouldn’t have any problem moving things over from your local XAMPP setup to a LAMP setup with your host.

How to filter get_avatar?

The Original Poster was missing the pair priority, parameters when declaring the filter hook: add_filter( ‘get_avatar’, array( $this, ‘get_avatar’ ), 10, 5 ); Being 5 all the parameters the callback function can use: public function get_avatar( $avatar, $id_or_email, $size, $default, $alt ) { return $avatar; }

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