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WordPress Directories: inc and lib

In the previous post, I spoke briefly about WordPress directories. Specifically, I talked about placing files in an `inc` directory whenever building a theme. This lead to a comment by Richard that I thought was worth covering here: In the theme folder, sometimes I see people use “lib” to include theme assets and other […]

Making Remote Requests with wp_remote_get

[…] 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?

[…] 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

[…] 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 […]

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