Carl Alexander

WooCommerce Update: Blocks 8.0, Checkout Block Payment Method Guide and Dummy Gateway, Licensing Solutions, Future of Payments, and Carl meets Bōggie

Bob Dunn

July 7, 2022

It's WooCommerce Blocks 8.0, and Woo 6.7's final release is close. • A new guide with a tool to help you integrate payment methods with the Checkout Block. • What's your preferred software licensing solution? • The Future of Payments, with David Mainayar and Robert Windisch. • When Carl met Bōggie.

What’s a WordPress “Developer?”

Dan Knauss

May 27, 2022

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

It’s a good time to celebrate growth, maturity — and longevity. This is our 500th issue. WordPress is 19! And the 6.0 release is just a few days old, with new and old hands contributing from all over the world. Many are "developers" of some kind. Those who are showing up every day to make the project work and to make a living in WordPress are the professionals. Here's to them!

Post Status Notes #500

David Bisset

May 27, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

It's the 500th issue of Post Status Notes and the Post Status newsletter coinciding with WordPress's 6.0 release and its 19th anniversary! 🎂

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 22

David Bisset

May 27, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Catch up on the gold at WordSesh! Mark Ashton on the success of UiPress. Hanna Smith on web sustainability. Michelle and Allie on sponsored events. Mark Root-Wiley on CSS Standards for WordPress. Takis and Taeke on organizing WCEU.

Post Status Notes #497

David Bisset

May 6, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

WordPress is 19! • WP 6.0 news and Beta 4 release. • JetPack 10.9 • BuddyPress Rewrites 1.1.0 • Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 • InMotion funds WCUS scholarships • RSS and Blogging FTW • Wishlist Member acquired • New leadership team at Yoast • and the rest of your weekly WP news roundup!

The Week in WooCommerce (April 25-29)

Bob Dunn

April 29, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

WooCommerce 6.5 RC available for testing. Blockified product pages. Custom tables and premature optimization. Where are all the WooCommerce alternatives?

Post Status Notes #493

David Bisset

April 8, 2022

PlanetSecurity

It's your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we've done almost 500 of these? -Ed.

Post Status Comments (No. 8) — Getting Up To Speed On PHP News

David Bisset

March 24, 2022

CommentsPlanet

In this episode of The Excerpt, David Bisset speaks with Carl Alexander and Tonya Mork about PHP news WordPressers should know about.

Carl Alexander has an update about…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Carl Alexander has an update about Ymir, the serverless DevOps platform he is building for WordPress. In the process, he explains how to create a WP-CLI command. 👍

Carl Alexander is building a serverless…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Carl Alexander is building a serverless DevOps platform for WordPress, which he is calling Ymir — you can watch a video explaining it further. Carl compares his project to Laravel Vapor because "Ymir isn’t a WordPress host. You will have…

Carl Alexander tells the story of…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Carl Alexander tells the story of how he and Adam Wathan wrote a book in markdown. Carl built a markdown-to-PDF app for this project. 📗

Carl Alexander explains why raising the…

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2020

Carl Alexander explains why raising the minimum PHP version in WordPress doesn't make it a "modern PHP project." The also lists the steps that could be taken now to close that gap. In a follow-up tweet, Carl added, "I think…

Carl Alexander continues his deep dev…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

Carl Alexander continues his deep dev dives into the WordPress admin with this new post about building admin pages for special situations. Carl has some outstanding code examples — if you want to see improvements that you can make to…

Carl Alexander has a new post on…

Dan Knauss

November 2, 2018

Carl Alexander has a new post on the subject of "acceptance testing," which is testing whether your code meets the needs and expectations of the end users who will use your software. Carl talks a bit about popular PHP acceptance testing…

Carl Alexander talks about PHP’s reflection…

Dan Knauss

May 18, 2018

Carl Alexander talks about PHP’s reflection API on a high level, looking at the reflection classes that you’re most likely to use. As a developer, I found this very informative. As Carl notes, there are a lot of unique uses…

Carl Alexander has written an in-depth…

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

Carl Alexander has written an in-depth guide for developers who are getting started with continuous integration in their WordPress development. Continuous integration is especially important if you're part of a team or have others updating your codebase — you will definitely want…

WooCommerce Update: Blocks 8.0, Checkout Block Payment Method Guide and Dummy Gateway, Licensing Solutions, Future of Payments, and Carl meets Bōggie

What’s a WordPress “Developer?”

Post Status Notes #500

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The Week in WooCommerce (April 25-29)

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Carl Alexander has an update about…

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Carl Alexander continues his deep dev…

Carl Alexander has a new post on…

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Carl Alexander has written an in-depth…

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