This article is going to discuss, in fairly high level terms, PHP Traits and how you can use them to help your wordpress development. As someone who started using PHP in about 2005 when version 4 was just being introduced, I think of Traits as being a very new addition…
In this, the second part of the series showing a docker compose based development environment for wordpress, we look the rest of the files in the system and the commands which are run to complete the install and configuration of the site. A reminder that the first part of the…
When I first started the Develop with WordPress site, some of the earliest articles I wrote were a series on installing wordpress. These articles are still a useful resource when it comes to installing on a server or laptop running Linux, but often you don’t want to install server processes…
This is just a very short post to offer some advice to any developers who are adding PHP extensions to their wordpress environment using the pecl tool. This is a tool which compiles extensions and links them to the PHP binary so they run correctly. When the install process takes…
Filters in WordPress are one of the mechanisms which allows the WordPress core system to call and run new code written after the core was written. They are one of the first conceptual ideas that you need to understand when you start developing in wordpress, because the very first rule…