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Use and Abuse Singletons in WordPress

[…] typical plugin. And I think that’s a Good Thing™. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know that I generally prefer the object-oriented approach to building plugins so there are a number of patterns, common solutions, and architectural decisions that I try to employ from project-to-project. I’m not dogmatic about it, though: If […]

Design Patterns and WordPress (And Resources!)

[…] they have. What’s the point of bringing this up, though? Where’s All The Talk About This? In the past year or so, I’ve worked on some medium-to-large plugins all of which have had some type of component that will inevitably grow over time or that have been communicating with third-party APIs, components, etc. And as […]

WordPress REST API Example (One of Many)

[…] the external interface to send and receive RESTful HTTP requests. Since shipping in 4.4, the infrastructure is now used by WordPress Core for oEmbed responses, and by plugins like WooCommerce and Jetpack, enabling anyone to create their own REST API endpoints. It’s exciting, right? And endpoints that will be exposed is significant. You can read […]

Improving WordPress Resource Requests

[…] for several years): And the fact that it doesn’t min / cat files instead of network requests is just plain dumb. And when a person has 23 plugins, that’s 26 files not even including the theme and core. And now, just as I did then, I don’t disagree with him. But after sharing the […]

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