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Building a better WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Chris Hutchinson has ideas for a better WordPress. Imagine a world where WordPress is lean, fast, and efficient. In this world, WordPress has just one task: to manage your content. >And he lays out his ideas for what WordPress would…

Consequences of bumping PHP minimums, from a Joomla lead that’s been there

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

There's a mega Trac ticket to, "strategize the updating of minimum PHP version." Joe and I talked about this on the latest podcast too (in the last segment), if you're curious. The Trac ticket goes every which way, as you'd expect.…

Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week on the Draft podcast, Joe and Brian discuss justification for attending WordPress events, WordPress comments, and WordPress PHP version support, PHP7, and HHVM.

A good overview of namespaces and how they’re helpful for WordPress developers

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

In the podcast Joe and I just recorded, one of our topics was WordPress PHP version support. In WordPress 5.3, namespaces were introduced, and WordPress core doesn't use them; but WordPress developers use them often in custom work or for…

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Hosting

WordPress will support PHP7 officially immediately upon its planned November release, says PHP7 testing extraordinaire Aaron Jorbin. As Aaron notes, PHP7 has significant speed improvements on past versions, and it will be great to be able to use it right…

Work can wait

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Remote work and digital nomad-ing may be the future, but it can have consequences. You are never away from the office when your home is your office, and with workers in all kinds of timezones and on all kinds of…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

This is a preview of the first part of my upcoming article on Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress. Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They are…

The upcoming release of PHP 7.0

Japh Thomson

June 27, 2015

Zeev Suraski spoke about PHP 7.0, which is currently due for release around mid-November 2015. As we often are for WordPress before a new release, they're looking for testers! He highlighted that performance, particularly comparing with HHVM, will be one…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

The official stance of WordPress.org is that WordPress is supported on PHP 5.2.4 or greater. The official stance of the Plugin Team regarding what version of PHP your plugins can use is .. not that. We don’t have an official…

Solving plugin dependency

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Ryan McCue and Gary Pendergast have differing viewpoints on plugin dependency and how to solve it (or whether to solve it at all). Watching them debate is music to my ears. From Ryan: Software is invariably never built in isolation (“no…

In defense of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2015

Security

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

An interface for the WordPress Settings API

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Tom McFarlin has a nice six post series on his blog that walks through creating a PHP interface for the WordPress Settings API. It's yet another great way to learn from Tom. By the way, he's also looking to sell…

Building a better WordPress

Consequences of bumping PHP minimums, from a Joomla lead that’s been there

Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

A good overview of namespaces and how they’re helpful for WordPress developers

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

Work can wait

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

The upcoming release of PHP 7.0

What is Code?

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

Solving plugin dependency

In defense of WordPress

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

An interface for the WordPress Settings API

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