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Making Remote Requests with wp_remote_get

May 7, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] with Standard, we’ve had less than stellar experience especially when it comes to budget hosts. This is where wp_remote_get comes into play. In short, wp_remote_get is a simple WordPress API function that’s used to retrieve data from a specified URL using the HTTP GET method. Understanding wp_remote_get Of course, as with most API methods, there’s […]

Do One Thing and Do It Well – But How?

January 28, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] class should have a single responsibility, and that responsibility should be entirely encapsulated by the class. All its services should be narrowly aligned with that responsibility. In WordPress – and even other languages and platforms – developers often extend this particular principle to lower-level components like functions. After all, if each function has a […]

We Need Better Abstraction in WordPress Projects

January 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

[…] in programming lives at some level of abstraction. I bring all of this up because I’ve seen – and continue to see – huge opportunities for refactoring WordPress-based code (specifically in themes and plugins) into more abstract units in other code as well as my own. An Example of Abstraction Suffice it to say […]

Remove Empty Shortcodes: Now with an Admin Scanner, Unit Tests, and Automated Deployment

February 16, 2026 / Tom

[…] you’re not familiar, Brain Monkey lets you mock WordPress functions without spinning up a full WordPress installation. Tests run in milliseconds instead of seconds. If you’re writing WordPress plugins and haven’t tried it, take a look. Automated Deployment I finally set up the 10up WordPress.org deploy action. Now when I publish a GitHub release, it […]

Start Writing WordPress Tutorials in these Gutenberg Times

August 19, 2022 / Tom

[…] a beginner’s hopes up only to let them down to leave them feel more confused by the time they’re done. Saying “here’s how to write your first WordPress plugin” is a little bit better because it sets a level of expectation in terms of the level of experience required. If the reader is a […]

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