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WordCamp Europe & the WP-CLI
Filmed at WordCamp Europe in Berlin, a conversation with the maintainer of WP-CLI about keeping a critical WordPress tool alive. Alain covers sponsor-funded maintenance as a hedge against burnout, and his rethink of the Scaffold command into a teaching tool for current best practices.
Pantheon caught up with Alain at WordCamp Europe 2019 to talk through the present and future of the WordPress command line. He explains why he enlisted sponsors to make long-term WP-CLI contribution sustainable as core keeps changing, and shares his vision for the Scaffold feature as an educational surface that generates modern, best-practice code rather than just the conventional WordPress way.