PHP

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure…

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2016

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers -- and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with…

Dailymotion shared about their experiment with HHVM…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Dailymotion shared about their experiment with HHVM and the process of moving to PHP 7. It took them less than a week to migrate the 10+ year old PHP codebase. The performance is on par with HHVM, but with greater reliability,…

Also in PHP 7 land, WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Also in PHP 7 land, WordPress core committer Joe McGill documented his process of upgrading a Digital Ocean droplet on WordPress to PHP 7, and from HTTP to HTTPS. I think his definition of easy is different than mine, but…

WordPress developers are used to the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

WordPress developers are used to the criticism from other coding communities when it comes to PHP (some of it well deserved). There have been articles discussing pros and cons before, but I enjoyed Keith Adams (from the engineering team at…

Tumblr shares some statistics after their…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Tumblr shares some statistics after their move to PHP 7. Almost immediately they saw their latency drop by half and the CPU load on the servers decrease "at least 50%." I like their very short but true summary at the end…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

BusinessDesign

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

I’ve been staring at Postleaf a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

I've been staring at Postleaf a good bit recently, since Sonya Mann sent me the link. It's a new and open source PHP and MySQL blogging platform that uses handlebar templates, and it's quite pretty.

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have recently updated the PHP_CodeSniffer rules that enforce WordPress coding conventions. PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts: one "tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards," and…

Simple Regex Language (SRL) looks refreshing…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Simple Regex Language (SRL) looks refreshing with its much cleaner syntax. If you're already using PHP 7, you can require SRL with Composer and use it easily.

As a developer, it’s important to…

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

As a developer, it's important to not limit yourself to a particular set of tools. The same goes for programming languages. Jeremy Pry goes into this further on the WebDevStudios blog. Jeremy points out that learning another language beyond PHP allows…

Boone Gorges shares that BuddyPress 2.8…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Boone Gorges shares that BuddyPress 2.8 will require PHP 5.3.x. He shared recent PHP version breakdown for sites running a version of BuddyPress greater than 2.0: Unknown - 1.08% 5.2 - 3.23% 5.3 - 12.92% 5.4 - 34.44% 5.5 -…

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he didn't use WordPress to build his WordPress themes site. I feel spending too much time in the WordPress bubble can be bad. I’m not going to grow as a developer if I don’t try…

Pressmatic wants to be the new standard for local WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2016

Clay Griffiths -- co-founder of Headway Themes, which he's run since 2009 -- has a new unaffiliated venture, called Pressmatic. With Pressmatic, Clay hopes to set the new standard for local WordPress development. Pressmatic is a GUI-driven utility for creating…

Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock’s…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Design

Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock's article covering PHP design patterns and architectures. He also covers common patterns employed in WordPress.

Justin Tadlock has recently released the…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Justin Tadlock has recently released the beta of his Butterbean post meta framework. I have yet to give it a test drive, but so far it looks really nice (apparently modeled after the WordPress Customize API) and everything Justin has ever…