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Use Static Variables in Plugin Bootstrap Files

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 […]

Awesome WP-CLI: A First-Rate Starting Place

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 […]

Avoiding class_exists in Object-Oriented WordPress Code

If you write object-oriented code for WordPress (usually within the context of plugins), you’re likely to come across a class_exists check before initializing a class. But we should start avoiding class_exists in much of our code at this point (with a few exceptions that I’ll outline below). Depending on the version of PHP you’re […]

Adding Plugin Config Files to WordPress

Almost everyone who has worked with WordPress has dealt with wp-config.php. I know – there are a lot of managed hosts out there that take care of a lot of this for you – but even though a person may not have directly edited the file, they have definitely interacted with it. For those […]

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