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Carl Alexander continues his deep dev dives into the WordPress admin with this new post about building admin pages for special situations. Carl has some outstanding code examples — if you want to see improvements that you can make to the admin page system, bookmark this one. 🔖
In this episode of The Excerpt, David Bisset speaks with Carl Alexander and Tonya Mork about PHP news WordPressers should know about.
Carl Alexander tells the story of how he and Adam Wathan wrote a book in markdown. Carl built a markdown-to-PDF app for this project. 📗
Carl Alexander talks about PHP’s reflection API on a high level, looking at the reflection classes that you’re most likely to use. As a developer, I found this very informative. As Carl notes, there are a lot of unique uses for reflections.
Bet Hannon, CEO of AccessiCart, talks with Cory Miller about her journey in starting an agency focused on accessibility and e-commerce in the WordPress space. She highlights the importance of accessibility, not only as a legal requirement but also as a means to enhance the user experience for all visitors. Bet emphasizes the need for WordPress professionals to continually educate themselves about accessibility and user experience best practices, collaborate with communities, and consider the diverse needs of users with disabilities. By prioritizing accessibility and optimizing user experiences, we can create inclusive websites that benefit all users.
Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it’s hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I’ve taken note of but didn’t get into a post or newsletter. Definitely worth a listen:
Carl Alexander has written an in-depth guide for developers who are getting started with continuous integration in their WordPress development. Continuous integration is especially important if you’re part of a team or have others updating your codebase — you will definitely want to automate your different development workflows to maintain code quality and sanity.
