WordPress Development for Beginners: “Does the User See It?”
Getting started with WordPress development can be disorienting. As I’ve written, software development (including WordPress development) is a lot like caving, and trying to do your first WordPress development project can be like waking up somewhere in the middle of a dark cave and trying to figure it out from there.
8 Things I Learned Building a WordPress Site without Code
About a month ago, I read a headline in the Post Status newsletter called “Let’s No-Code This Thing and All Go Home.” It linked to an article that stated:
Learning PHP for WordPress Development: Introduction to PHP Functions
This article is an accessible dive into one of the bedrock concepts of modern programming: functions.
Is WordPress Object-Oriented? A Thorough Exploration
Here at WPShout, we’ve got some thorough tutorials on using object-orientation as a WordPress developer. We’ve hopefully convincingly explained that it’s pretty common and easy for a developer to write something when programming WordPress that is OO. Many many plugins you see are is essentially object-oriented WordPress plugins. What I want to explore today is a more esoteric question: Is WordPress an object-oriented system? Or, in short “Is WordPress OOP?”
Six Ways to Start 2019 Off Right in WordPress
Happy New Year! 2019 is brand new, and it’s a time of promise and opportunity. Whether you do WordPress development for clients, manage one or more personal WordPress projects, or other, here are six ways you can make 2019 your best year in WordPress yet.
PHP Static Methods in Depth: What They Are & How they Work in WordPress
One of the things that often confuses people new to object-oriented PHP is what are called “PHP static methods” and “static properties”. They’re often confusing, because you simply aren’t used to the syntax, which is a PHP double-colon (::) where you might expect an arrow (->). But, I’m getting ahead of myself.
How to Auto Update the Copyright Year in a WordPress Footer
An out-of-date copyright year in a site’s footer is a common sight, especially early in a new year. It happens because people don’t take advantage of WordPress’s server-side language, PHP, to auto-update the copyright year in WordPress. Instead they’re manually changing it. But it’s a complex and menial task, so it’s easy to put off.
How to Customize Your WordPress Post Excerpts
The WordPress excerpts system works properly, but it uses lots of functions and it’s hard to know which one does what.