This is a really nice idea. It’s a coding challenge where you have to audit a plugin for security flaws. A chance to learn more about best practices and getting your code reviewed by core developers.
What’s the best approach to maintenance — in software, sailing, or anything else? Hope for the best? Stewart Brand takes a famous solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race as a parable about maintenance styles that will win, go beyond winning, or drive you mad.
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?
Tom J Nowell published a great post today on theme composition vs frameworks. He points out a problem with theme frameworks: what you need or want to do doesn’t always fit the way the framework is laid out. The problem here is that what you want to build doesn’t always fit the foundations provided. You…
A nice intro post for a series on front end techniques from Pete Schuster. He talks the basics of debugging JavaScript with console.log. A good read.
Matt explores the various ways to include various custom post types in themes and asks what’s considered the best practice and why. Great opportunity for discussion in the comments.
Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.
