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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 of the post: “PHP 7 is pretty rad!”
📝 Some noteworthy items from the latest weekly WordPress developer meeting: WordPress 5.1 RC1 is already out with RC2 either “late this week or early next week.” The final version is on target for 2/21. WordPress 5.1.1 will probably be released two weeks after 5.1 with 5.2 coming in “maybe late April.” There is a proposal…
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2019 State of the Word, where he offered a comprehensive overview of the last year of all things WordPress.
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 new things. By working with a PHP Framework that I haven’t used before, by ditching…
Where is WordPress going in 2023? Read Josepha’s Big Picture Goals for the year. WordPress certifications are in the planning phases, and the foundation will include LearnWP. The Training Team is conducting a Needs Analysis. Help gather the community’s input. Plugins Team is seeking intentionally wrong plugins, and Core has the 6.2 Planning Roundup.
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project’s largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project’s code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
Tim Nash shares how one might go about finding all the Gutenberg Blocks used on a site. It’s more complicated than you think. Tim also shares five languages he thinks WordPress Developers should learn in 2020: PHP 7, Javascript and NodeJS, Python, Rust, and Bash/Shell Scripting.
