Choosing plugins, libraries, and frameworks — Draft Podcast

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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.

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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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