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A collection of resources for WordPress Developers, written and curated by experts

Getting into Go for PHP developers

How many programming languages do you regularly work with? But you probably have your favorites. Myself, I’ve built my career on PHP and JavaScript. I’m always looking to learn something…

Peter Tasker

May 30, 2018

The Surprising Benefits of Speaking at a Technical Conference

Now, this is a story all about how My life got flipped-turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute Just sit right there I’ll tell you how I…

Peter Tasker

Apr 17, 2018

How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3, React and the REST API (part 2)

How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3, React and the REST API (part 2)

This is article 2 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” Have you ever wondered how to get React working with the WordPress…

Peter Tasker

Oct 31, 2017

WP Migrate DB Pro 1.8 Released: Import SQL File & More

The WP Migrate DB Pro team is very excited to announce the release of version 1.8! We’ve packed in an awesome new feature and improved a bunch of existing functionality.…

Peter Tasker

Sep 14, 2017

How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3 & React (Part 1)

This is article 1 of 2 in the series “How to Develop a WordPress Plugin Using Webpack 3” If you’ve been working with JavaScript in the last couple years you’ve…

Peter Tasker

Jul 19, 2017

Refactoring JavaScript: How to Avoid Technical Debt While Working with Legacy Code

Do you have a legacy JavaScript codebase you’re avoiding refactoring? So does WordPress. If you’ve been paying attention to WordPress core lately, you may have noticed that there has been…

Peter Tasker

May 23, 2017

Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class

The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an…

Peter Tasker

Jan 24, 2017