Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
Project Moiety – A Hypothetical WordPress Roadmap
What would it take for WordPress to reach a next big milestone of accounting for 51% of the web? Here’s a hypothetical long-term roadmap as a thought experiment, targeting enterprise clients as the next big audience to tackle.
Read MoreUsing A Config To Write Reusable Code – Part 3
In a previous instalment, we identified the Config file as being a promising tool to map data reusable code to project-specific code. In this third article, we’ll examine what our Settings page example looks like if we do indeed make use of such a Config file.
Read MoreOn WordPress And Democracy
WordPress Philosophy seems to indicate that all design decisions are ultimately run by the user base to get a “democratic” voting of what changes to implement or reject. However, the reality is far from that. Is WordPress missing a “voting” system?
Read MoreTwo WordPremieres For Me
Recount of my impressions of being a first-time volunteer and first-time speaker at a WordCamp, two personal premieres I was able to experience at WordCamp Frankfurt 2016.
Read MoreUsing A Config To Write Reusable Code – Part 2
While the first part of this series identified the need to separate business-specific logic from reusable code, we haven’t yet discussed how to best achieve this. Let’s try to think it through…
Read MoreUsing A Config To Write Reusable Code
OOP lures you with the promise of making code reusable, but OOP syntax alone does not make your code reusable. Let’s find out why that is, and how to really write reusable code.
Read MoreAdding A Central Autoloader To WordPress
Including an autoloader within WordPress is not an all-or-nothing endeavour. With a few simple changes, we can have a fully functional autoloader being loaded with WordPress, and we can start refactoring the existing Core code to gradually load more and more classes (and even functions) through the autoloader.
Read MoreAttracting Developers To WordPress
Ryan McCue, Senior Engineer at Human Made and WordPress Core Developer, has posted a series of tweets regarding the fact that WordPress is far from an ideal platform for developers, which has spawned a lot of discussion. Yes, the fact that WP has perception problems is partially related, but even those in the community dislike working with…
Read MoreIs WordPress a Dependency?
I am currently on a quest to find the perfect setup for my WordPress projects (who isn’t, right?). I do think that a large part of what makes or breaks complex software projects is dependency management. And there are dependencies at every level of your projects, be they languages, libraries, servers, stakeholders, whatever. When someone…
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