Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Joe Hoyle — the CTO of Human Made — and me, Brian Krogsgard.
In this episode, Joe and I discuss how we choose plugins, code libraries, and frameworks for our projects.
Topics & Links
- How we pick plugins
- Analyzing a plugin on WordPress.org
- Using GitHub
- Picking libraries or drop-in frameworks
- Dealing with updates
- Differentiating between picking tools for our personal or internal projects, versus doing so for clients
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Hey folks,
I’m just having a listen to this episode now. https://github.com/afragen/github-updater will update your plugins and themes from Github.
You just need to add the header for where your plugin or theme is hosted. It’s actively maintained by a surgeon!
Love the podcast! ❤️