Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, “even a half-assed solution pre-built beats building your own half-assed solution that you’ll never get around to finishing.”
Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!
Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it’s appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a descriptive method for knowing when loops start and stop, because of the endif; visual. His…
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For a long time, I’ve debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement — and I mean engagement from the top down, not the bottom up. In the WordPress space, you hear about…
PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it’s notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name implies), and very customizable. Today, they’ve announced official support for managing WordPress projects. According to the…
In the podcast Joe and I just recorded, one of our topics was WordPress PHP version support. In WordPress 5.3, namespaces were introduced, and WordPress core doesn’t use them; but WordPress developers use them often in custom work or for distributed plugins. WP Shout has an excellent overview of namespaces that really nicely puts namespaces…
