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Justin Sainton helpfully shares how he got…

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

Justin Sainton helpfully shares how he got WooCommerce and Quickbooks to work together for a client. Justin notes he prefers to "build things in a way that they can be decoupled and used across multiple projects," which also helps the broader community.…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide to writing unit tests for developers based on his experience at Delicious Brains. Iain's testing framework of choice is PHPUnit. He covers what to test and how to write tests, with many helpful tips…

Plugin authors can now specify a…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Plugin authors can now specify a minimum required PHP version for their plugin with a new "Requires PHP" in the readme.txt file. As Sergey Biryukov states, this is an effort for WordPress "to move forward and encourage people to use…

Let’s celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Let's celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner recently turned eight. Syed Balkhi reflects of all the major things happening in the business, along with personal accomplishments. CSS Tricks is now a decade old. Chris Coyier looks back on the first post…

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online visual editor for PHP serialized data. Gilbert Pellegrom explains how and why this project came about, as well as the unique challenges it posed.

Jetpack 5.0 was released as a “spring cleaning”…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Jetpack 5.0 was released as a "spring cleaning" with a focus on stability and compatibility. You'll want to update for cleaner code, faster execution, and a few bug fixes for PHP 7.1 that were causing some fatal errors.

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js…

Chassis is a virtual server for…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Chassis is a virtual server for WordPress that's been made available to the public while it's still in the early stages of development. It's an open source community project with commercial support from Human Made. With the Chassis Desktop interface you can…

Here’s a good comparison of Apache…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Here's a good comparison of Apache and Nginx for WordPress developers from Tom Whitbread. Tom describes how each HTTP server handles connections and explains how to set up PHP FPM with Apache and Nginx. I see little to no benefit…

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version 2.0.0, and this official release post goes into some of the new bits. There's a new method for configuring VVV, including the ability to choose PHP 5.6, 7.0, or 7.1 for your project and…

Something interesting on the Yoast Github…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Something interesting on the Yoast Github account: Whip, which is a WordPress package that "nudges users" to upgrade their software versions (starting with PHP). It supports all major PHP versions from 5.2 to 7.1. If you have a particular plugin…

W3techs annual “Web Technologies of the…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

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.

2016 was a good year for…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

2016 was a good year for PHP according to Zend as they share survey results from 1200 developers. Some interesting results, most notably that over 50% of respondents are planning to move to PHP 7.x within one year (that's good).…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Jack Lenox

January 12, 2017

DevelopmentPlanet

It's a new year, and a great time to set some New Year's resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Justin Sainton helpfully shares how he got…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Iain Poulson recently shared a guide…

Plugin authors can now specify a…

Let’s celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner…

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online…

Jetpack 5.0 was released as a “spring cleaning”…

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

Chassis is a virtual server for…

Here’s a good comparison of Apache…

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version…

Something interesting on the Yoast Github…

W3techs annual “Web Technologies of the…

2016 was a good year for…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

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