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Years ago, the previous team with whom I worked built a theme tailored for a live event. Once the event was over, we refactored a bit of the code and began selling it.

When 8BIT folded, one of the previous team members took it over and has been selling and supporting it. The theme has continued to sell well for the past few years.

So much so that a couple of years ago, Eric approached me about building out the next version of the theme. So, starting from scratch and using newer technologies, that’s what we began to do.

But as our businesses changed and the demands on our time changed, the focus on Live Theme changed, as well.

The short of it? We’re looking to sell the theme.

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Work with WordPress long enough and you’re bound to come across something called “kses” or the wp_kses function. Perhaps this comes with writing your own code, or it comes with reading someone else’s source. Or maybe in reading core.

Whatever the case, the function has a weird name, right?

I mean, a lot of the WordPress API functions have clear names so it’s easy to know what you’re doing. This one is more of the exception than the rule. That doesn’t change anything, does it? I mean, it still raises the questions:

• What’s the purpose of the function,
• Why does it matter,
• Why should we use it,
• And what purpose do its variations serve?

We should be asking these questions for all functions with which we work. But when the name isn’t clear, the answers aren’t as easy to deduce.

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Let’s say that you’re working with Ajax in WordPress. And let’s say that, whatever you’re building, is using object-oriented programming.

Depending on the complexity of your work, you may find that how you’ve implemented your Ajax functionality doesn’t work.

That is:

• You’ve implemented the proper hooks
• You’ve got the callbacks defined
• You’re `echo`ing the data properly
• You’ve got the `wp_die()` call at the end of each request
• And you’ve setup `console.log()` or other debugging statements in your Development environment

But you’re still seeing the request return 0 for everything you’ve implemented.

What gives?

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