Here are five lessons I’ve learned in the first month of developing, releasing, and maintaining a premium WordPress plugin:
Search: “wordpress plugins” (Page 98 of 127)
We found 631 results for your search.
[…] I’m my experience, it’s true – though, as with anything, there are outliers. As I continue to work to introduce a premium level of support for my WordPress-related work, one of the things that I’ve found myself wrestling with is turning a profit on work to which others have contributed. But are open source […]
[…] of the things that Pippin, Norcross, and I have been talking about during the course of building Comments Not Replied to is the best practices for instantiating WordPress Plugins. Specifically, we’ve gone from simply creating an instance of the plugin, to storing it within the PHP $GLOBALS variable, as well and then debating whether or […]
As nice as event-driven programming can be within the context of WordPress’ hook system, one of the challenges is preventing code from executing every single time the hook is called. For example, say you’re writing a function that fires during the init action but something happens in WordPress core that triggers the init action […]
One of the more challenging aspects of working with WordPress is working the fragmented nature of documentation. And I don’t necessarily mean the Codex nor do I mean the Developer Resources. But I mean the fact that there’s a ton of information spread across blogs (mine not exempt), subreddits, questions and answers on Stack […]
