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The Versions of WordPress and PHP

[…] and then go from there? There are other parallels to this in the WordPress development community, as well. If you take a look at ways in which plugins and themes are now being built with more sophisticated tools as opposed to just dropping libraries and dependencies into directories and managing them on our own, I think […]

Two Take Aways From Jason Schuller’s Pickle Project

[…] way, but I do think that there’s a time and a place for us to honor all of the coding standards that we have (especially in themes, plugins, and other publicly released work), and then maybe relax when we’re talking more about something that’s not going to be used as widely by developers, designers, […]

A Case For Dependency Management with WordPress

[…] which I’m working right now). All of us have themes that have dependencies – be it something like a front-end framework or be it something like third-party plugins – but the way in which we’ve gone about managing them leaves much to be desired. Dependency Management with WordPress For starters, let’s say that we’re working […]

The Constraints of an API Are a Good Thing

[…] so with the set of guardrails given to us by the platform that we’re using. How Does This Factor Into WordPress? When it comes to building themes, plugins, extensions, or even web applications, I’ve yet to find a case where an API didn’t exist that allow me to do what I wanted to do, […]

Getting Started with WordPress Admin Pointers

[…] Pointers. For those who are unfamiliar, WordPress Admin Pointers are the tooltips with the blue headers that usually appear when you first install WordPress, or that some plugins have begun to display upon initial activation. Generally speaking, they are meant to prompt users for how to get started with certain features of WordPress, or […]

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