Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
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The next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is officially tagged and available for download in GitHub.
This release – although a minor improvement over the last – introduces several improvements to 2.6.0, and also marks a change in the development of the project, as well as the introduction of several things that will be coming to the Boilerplate in the next several versions.
Since Standard is no longer is active development and support is currently being managed by the stellar guys at WooThemes, a couple of people have asked me what my preferred theme and/or my preferred theme shop is.
There are several amazing theme companies out there. I don’t have a favorite, but you likely already know the good ones by name because they are the ones who are most currently the most prominent.
If you were to select a theme from one of those companies, then you’d be good to go.
That said, as much as I’ve enjoyed building, using, and sharing Standard, and as much as I love supporting other WordPress companies (heck, I bought a theme from one of them just yesterday), I still see my blog as a very personal property – as many do – and since I clearly love building things for WordPress, I’m in the process of building a theme that will serve as the next iteration of this blog.
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With yesterday’s announcement of the latest release of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve had a number of emails, tweets, and messages how people can stay up to date with the project without having to follow the GitHub repository, or the blog.
Ultimately, I want to make sure that this Boilerplate reaches the largest number of developers both for those who wish to contribute, and for those who wish to use it as a starting place for their projects.
As such, I’ve created an opt-in mailing list to which you can subscribe.
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Today, I am absolutely stoked to announce the next major release of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.
I discussed some of the things I’ve learned – and some of the changes that have been implemented in a recent post – but I couldn’t be happier with this release.
Some quick statistics:
This is by far the largest commit and set of changes that have gone into the Boilerplate since it has been released. You can grab it here, but read on for more details!
Last March, I wrote a post on How To Include a Page Template in a WordPress Plugin. The post and the associated code was a proof-of-concept that was never intended to be used in production environments.
But since then, I’ve received a few pull requests and have implemented some additional changes that have brought this plugin up to a stable `1.0.0` that I believe is capable of being used in a more stable setting.
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