If you are a developer who…

ByDan Knauss Posted onSeptember 28, 2018

If you are a developer who dabbles in Laravel, you might be interested in Corcel. It’s a package that allows WordPress to be used as your backend with Laravel, Zend, or pure PHP on the frontend.

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In defense of WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard May 9, 2015

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares it to other frameworks. WordPress always ends up at the bottom. Yet here it is,…

Steve Grunwell offers a crash-course in…

ByBrian Krogsgard May 25, 2018

Steve Grunwell offers a crash-course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress developers.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)

ByCourtney Robertson December 14, 2022December 17, 2022

Tune in Thursday for Matt’s annual State of the Word address. Check out the WordPress Playground now. It brings key platform dependencies into the browser that you can embed in your own site today. Your feedback into the annual WordPress survey helps shape the project, so fill it out as soon as possible.

If you work with WooCommerce but…

ByDan Knauss August 26, 2019

If you work with WooCommerce but aren’t familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here’s a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7 requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also ships with Product Blocks 2.3 for the WordPress Block Editor and comes with new features…

WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

ByBrian Krogsgard October 26, 2015

The Toast is a popular blog that recently underwent a redesign, and includes an in-depth series on the Responsive Web Design blog going over many of the implementation and process details. The series doesn’t speak particularly highly (or accurately) about WordPress. I’ve read the post covering creating The Toast backend three times today, as well…