David Bissett recently posed this question on Twitter:
My fellow WP folks: What do you think is the biggest/most common CODING mistake #WordPress developers make?
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) April 23, 2019
@john-james-jacoby offered “Typos,” which probably wins for most common mistake.
For most consequential mistakes, there are a lot of top contenders:
overflowing transient name length. gets everyone at some point.
— Andrey Savchenko (@Rarst) April 23, 2019
Not understanding the query costs of high level helper functions and nesting them in loops (snippet from a refactor) pic.twitter.com/GSM8LPGama
— Phil Palmieri (@philpalmieri) April 24, 2019
Adding code that belongs in plugins inside themes
— Anyssa 🏡 (@anyssaferreira) April 23, 2019
Little bit of an opinionated title, I know. Mark Barnes does a nice job describing how to create grandchild themes by way of a plugin, in order to alter child theme functionality in themes like Genesis. The problem is Genesis is a parent theme, and their child themes do too much. A framework should be…
Warren Holmes is the Chief Information Officer at WooThemes. He tells a story on his personal blog how WooThemes opened up their documentation site from behind the paywall, and now that site is the referrer for 60% of their revenue. It’s pretty amazing what a happy accident that must be. I’ve always been an advocate…
Michael Fields posted on the theme review team listserve this morning that the WordPress.com Theme Team has created a resource page for theme guidelines. They use this resource for reviewing themes submitted to WordPress.com, but it can be useful to the theme review team, and your own themes, as well. Thanks theme wranglers! edit: I…
Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it’s still relevant and worth reading. Some other things I’ve enjoyed but haven’t slipped into a post yet: Joanne Limburg discusses the agonizing…
AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that’s an absolute titan in a broad range of industries. And they’ve just acquired Creative Market, a digital marketplace that’s gotten a lot of…
Frederick O’Brien warns against disposable design — a combination of unpleasant UX that follows unhealthy design fads, broken links, and quick fixes. 🗑️ Websites should last for years, so think about what your site will look like in 2, 5, or 20 years. 👴 Frederick also recommends modular thinking and designing for accessibility to be…
