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Writing for WordPress Has to Change (For Me)

[…] 10 years ago (give or a take), the theme economy was arguably at one of its first highest points, Automattic and opened a premium theme marketplace and plugins were more or less finding their way, but I don’t think certain tooling that we have in place now was as prevalent as it is. Standard […]

How I Set Up My 2021 MacBook Pro

[…] process ID and the name of the shell that’s running. Since I’m running zsh, I immediately install Oh My Zsh which is a library of functions and plugins for the zsh environment. I’ll cover them later in this article but for now, I do this: $ sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)” Then I enable […]

WordPress Then, WordPress Now

[…] WordPress, it was generally an all-encompassing experience. I was blogging almost daily – something I miss, but priorities and all that – and I was writing themes, plugins, and trying to make a case for how we could eventually build applications with WordPress. (No, I wasn’t the only one doing this but it was […]

Using a Registry, Subscribers, and Services in WordPress

TL;DR: I find the using a registry, subscribers, and services very useful when building backend-centric plugins and utilities for WordPress. This post walks through how to do it. After working in with design patterns, object-oriented programming, and WordPress for years, common ways of solving problems are bound to arise. This is how we got […]

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