Kurt Payne is a PHP developer, WordPress core contributor, and GoDaddy employee. In this Code Poet interview, he talks about what he’s learned and what he works on. I’ve used the GoDaddy P3 Profiler plugin he’s the main author of, and it’s really great. He sees a whole bunch of WordPress installs, so his insight is super valuable.
W3techs annual “Web Technologies of the Year” came out recently and WordPress wins the CMS spot for the seventh year in a row. PHP also grabs “Server-side Programming Language of the Year” with a growing marketshare.
Matt Mullenweg has written a rare bit of in-depth insight to decision making at Automattic. The framework for his post is for balancing advice from advisors with the goals of the company, and how those things aren’t always on the same page. But it’s the internal memo he shares as an example that has the…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News Released: WordPress 5.9 Josephine. (Matt Mullenweg) Preliminary…
Pantheon announced it has acquired Staging Pilot. 👩✈️ Staging Pilot is a service that helps you set up a server (while installing WordPress if you wish) by installing all the required software automatically, including PHP, database services and the web server itself. Staging Pilot also makes it very easy to manage multiple websites on a single instance…
I am not a professional analyst of the economy. But even for the professionals, there are significant uncertainties. I don’t mean to strike fear with this post. I mean to encourage preparedness — or at least as much as we can in the short time we have available. Please do not take my words as…
Ryan McCue and Gary Pendergast have differing viewpoints on plugin dependency and how to solve it (or whether to solve it at all). Watching them debate is music to my ears. From Ryan: Software is invariably never built in isolation (“no man is an island”), so they are naturally drawn to using external libraries. Extending an…
