Similar Posts
Advanced PHP developer? WordPress is a better starting point for your project than you think.
Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, “even a half-assed solution pre-built beats building your own half-assed solution that you’ll never get around to finishing.”
Two Tools
Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints
The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
CrowdFavorite releases Ruby gem for WordPress deployment with Capistrano
CrowdFavorite has officially released a Ruby gem that they’ve been using for some time that allows for deploying WordPress sites with Capistrano. They talk about how it’s different from Mark Jaquith’s WP-Stack, which you may have heard of, in the announcement post. Also included in the release was a Ruby gem called Steps, that produces…
Write code every day
Pippin has written a nice post about why we should be writing code every single day. I love this, in theory 🙂
You’re using transients wrong
Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a “maximum age” versus a “guaranteed expiration”. He also makes a worthwhile point about how even when you store transients, it doesn’t mean they won’t be expired…