Lots of cool stuff around the web this week. Here’s a run down of some of the best stuff I stumbled across:
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The WordPress Transients API offers a great way to get started caching frequently accessed data in the local database. Generally speaking, this can help improve page load time by caching values rather than having to retrieve them using typical queries each page load.
I recently completed a two-part series for Envato introducing transients in the context of WordPress, how to use them, as well as an example plugin that leverages the API.
Got a lot of resources this week:
Two months ago, I released WP Social Icons. Since then, I’ve shared my thoughts on plugin development and even spoken about them on the WP Tavern podcast.
I’ve received a lot of great feedback regarding minor bugs and feature requests. As of now, WP Social Icons 1.5 is now available.
A few months ago, I contributed an article to WPTuts on Writing Maintainable WordPress Widgets. The motivation for this series was driven largely by the fact that as much as I love the WordPress community, there are more than a few poorly constructed plugins.
In some cases, this is fine. If you’re planning to quickly throw something together with no plans to continue development after its initial release, you can probably get a way with throwing something functional together.
But if you’re looking to build a plugin that you’ll be maintaining over time, then I believe applying good software development practices is a must. That is, I think that developers should follow the platform’s API, use design patterns where applicable, and clearly organize their files.
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