Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
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Back in December, the team at ThemeFuse was kind enough to offer a giveaway and have offered to do the same again this month.
Since I try to take advantage of certain opportunities that help benefit those of you who are budding and/or experienced WordPress bloggers, designers, developers, and so on, I thought that it would be a good idea to go ahead and take them up on a second offer.
I could completely be in the minority in what I’m about to say, but when I see phrases such as “The WordPress Admin,” I cringe a little.
Maybe I’m being a bit legalistic, but hear me out: All throughout the backend of WordPress, we see the phrase “Dashboard.” In fact, it’s the first menu item that we see.
A little over a year ago, I released Mayer For WordPress and have been selling it on WordPress.com ever since.
For those who are unfamiliar with the theme, it offers the following features:
Not long ago, I placed the theme on GitHub. In fact, for those who have been reading this blog long enough will recall that I used to run it on this site.
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One of the more popular services that has to come to WordPress within the last year or so is the ability to integrate Git into your theme, plugin, and/or application development workflow.
And why shouldn’t it?
Services like GitHub and Bitbucket are responsible for the rise of Git, has introduced many people to source control (who I wonder if they’d ever use it), and then third-party services have made it possible for other people to connect their repository to another environment and deploy the changes.
It completely cuts out the middle-man of S/FTP and makes sure that we’re able to deploy true changesets of our work so that the code that’s sitting in our staging (or even production) areas are as updated as possible.
I’ve been using Postmatic to manage my blog comments for quite sometime now – since November, even. In fact, I’ve written two previous posts about the plugin:
Since those posts, I’ve continued to run Postmatic – I’ve been through every single release of the beta, I’ve been through the release candidates, I’ve experienced the bugs that come with it (and I know some of my readers have as well – thanks for the tweets on those, by the way :), and I’ve been through their resolution.
To say that I’ve not experienced each hill and valley of the business as a customer since last November is an understatement. The fast turn around and direct communication with Jason and the rest of the development team couldn’t be better.
Other companies could take note, but that’s another post for another day.
Today, Postmatic has officially hit 1.0 and I couldn’t be more excited for the team.
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