About Konstantin Obenland

Konstantin Obenland ist Professional Scrum Master I sowie Certified Scrum Product Owner und widmet sich seit einiger Zeit den Prozessen in der agilen Softwareentwicklung und der erfolgreichen Implementierung und Optimierung von Scrum in Entwicklerteams. Ausserdem beschäftigt er sich mit WordPress-Entwicklung und hat schon mehrere Plugins veröffentlicht.

My First Patch

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Konstantin Obenland

Inspired by Amy Hendrix‘ post on her first patch to an Open Source project, I want to briefly outline my first steps on WordPress Core trac:

My first patch to WordPress was basically just turning the recommendation that was given in-ticket into a patch. This was in June 2011 and is still waiting for further attention. But to be honest, at that time it wasn’t necessarily as much about the content of the patch for me as it was about creating a usable SVN patch in the first place. And actually submitting it. So it seemed like the perfect opportunity, since the content was pretty much outlined already.

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What he said!

Quote

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Konstantin Obenland

Honestly, I was floored when I was included on this list. While I’d like to think of myself as an active member of the WP Community, what I’ve done is small in comparison to many of the names on this list, both in name recognition and contributions.
Andrew Norcross

WordPress Community Summit

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Konstantin Obenland

2012 has been pretty great to me so far, especially when it comes to the WordPress site of my life:

I joined the WordPress Theme Review Team in March,
Released my first Theme to the repository in the same month,
Had my first patch committed to Core in May, therefore
Became Core Contributor to 3.4 in June and
Made it on the Twenty Twelve core development team in July.

But all this was topped today, when I received an invitation to the WordPress Community Summit on Tybee Island, GA in October!

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Twenty Eleven Showcase Slider

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Konstantin Obenland

Adds carousel functionality to the Twenty Eleven Showcase slider.

Description

This plugin enables the showcase template automatically slide through all the sticky posts. It simulates the mouse click that triggers the slide change every four seconds.

Installation

Download Twenty Eleven Showcase Slider.
Unzip the folder into the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

None asked yet.

The leanest comments.php file ever

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Konstantin Obenland

More to be seen as a proof of concept than the next step in Theme Development evolution, in version 1.7.0 The Bootstrap’s comments.php file will contain not more than a single call to comments_form().

<?php
/** comments.php
 *
 * The template for displaying Comments.
 *
 * The area of the page that contains both current comments
 * and the comment form. The actual display of comments is
 * handled by callbacks which are located in the functions.php file.
 *
 * @author		Konstantin Obenland
 * @package		The Bootstrap
 * @since		1.0.0 - 05.02.2012
 */

comment_form();

/* End of file comments.php */
/* Location: ./wp-content/themes/the-bootstrap/comments.php */

Many Theme authors will argue that it doesn’t make much sense to move the entire comment business out of comments.php and they are probably right. But when I realized that it was possible to have the entire file consist of only one function call, I wanted to implement it and try it out.