Mark Gavalda, of Kinsta Hosting, did some new benchmarks on HHVM and PHP7, and says that HHVM still comes out on top. The results surprised me a bit, but PHP7 is nonetheless an amazing performance improvement.
As 2022 comes to an end, State of the Word will happen in NYC again. Apply to attend or tune in to the livestream. Check out the beta version of the WordPress Developer Blog. Still have sites on WordPress 3.7 – 4.0? It’s really time to upgrade as this will receive no further updates after December 1. It’s team rep nomination time too.
There’s a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed “content endpoints” into WordPress core with the 4.7 release — which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development meeting of the 4.7 cycle, Helen proposed a series of things that would need to…
$635.5 billion…That’s “billion,” with a “B.” Let’s look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress’s market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?
Greg Wilson’s video on “What We Actually Know About Software Development” is pretty fascinating. Greg ends up with some soli data-based rules of thumb that seem to apply whenever you measure variations in performance over a sample of programmers: Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. Count on the best performer being…
WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check out this plugin wordcloud – what stands out amongst the rest? With so many plugins…
