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WordPress Plugin Boilerplate: Testing 1, 2, 3

In 2011, I released the first version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate and have been maintaining it (along with contributions from other programmers) ever since. Over the last couple of years, the Boilerplate became quite active – as far as very small projects are concerned – with issues, pull requests, and so on. It’s been […]

Thoughts on Design Patterns in WordPress

[…] things that I hear developers often try to do is to retrofit the MVC pattern around WordPress in order to try to make sense of how existing themes, plugins, and applications work, as well as how they can take advantage of MVC to produce their application. Don’t do that! WordPress doesn’t use MVC. It uses […]

The Usability of WordPress Featured Images

[…] the post title and post meta data, then it makes sense to implement the feature. This still leaves a problem, though: What do we do about various plugins and/or third-party sites and tools that look specifically for a post thumbnail when generating a link to the site? In some cases, larger sites are pretty […]

Educate Your Users in Open Source Software

One of the things that I’m working hard to have released by the end of the month is the latest version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. The latest version has been in development for quite a while now (a lot has happened offline so, you know, that’s how it goes). The last time that I really […]

Learn to Build an Online Store With WordPress

[…] this is important, how to use it, and why you should never use it to test code The importance of having someone else proof read your work Plugins that I believe are necessary and helpful to setup a shop for selling and distributing digital goods All about SSL certificates and why you’ll need one […]

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