Episode 95 – Can Better WordPress Development Standards Help Your Business?

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This week we’ve taken a look at the other side of running a WordPress business – the development.

We were joined by Alain Schlesser and Anton Ukhanev, two great developers who believe that developing your plugins and themes (and WordPress core itself) to as high a standard as you can will only help your business and the WordPress community grow further.

WordPress is growing in popularity, exceeding the 30% mark for the number of websites running WordPress worldwide. However, it’s also facing some controversy within the community over the approach being taken to Gutenberg, especially from developers.

I won’t give too much away, so listen in to hear about the pain-points within WordPress from a developer’s perspective, how this affects those running businesses around WordPress, and where the WordPress community went wrong and what it’s doing right with Gutenberg and more.

 

Links:

Alain Schlesser

• alainschlesser.com
• Twitter: @schlessera
• Github: schlessera
• Dependency Injection and Design Patterns in Real Life (WCEU Workshop)
  • Code example from the Workshop

Anton Ukhanev

• Twitter: @XedinUnknown
• Github: XedinUnknown

Other Resources

• PHP: The Right Way
• Learning OOP in PHP
• PHP Code Standards (Dhii) – What is Dhii?
• Join the Make WordPress Slack
• Gutenberg and the Future of WordPress: Conditions for Success – Morten Rand-Hendriksen
• Other talks from Alain Schlesser on WordPress.tv