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This post is part of a series of posts on extending the WordPress REST API using advanced object-oriented PHP. In the first post, I showed you how to use three filters to modify the schema of any post type route. Using an object-oriented approach is more complex, and takes more work than using functional programming styles or using some object-oriented code but not following the SOLID principles closely as I am attempting to do in these posts. That code we’ve been working with uses three WordPress filters and interacts with multiple WordPress APIs. The goal of these posts is to […]

One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg in Summer of 2017 and with good reason. Many developers have concerns, namely around backward compatibility. Read on to learn how Gutenberg will affect your existing site. Intro to Gutenberg For those who have not yet heard, Gutenberg is the nickname given to a new Editor for the WordPress […]

For the second year in a row, WPMU Dev’s Smush Image Compression has won Plugin Madness! This year’s competition was fierce, but in the end, the image compression plugin came out on top. The plugin beat out Autoptimize, ShortPixel Image Optimizer, Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization, previous winner Advanced Custom Fields, Custom Sliders, and finally Restrict Content to keep the throne. This year’s competition was even bigger and better than the previous two years. Huge competitors like Yoast and WooCommerce were knocked out fairly while Smush stayed consistent. Congrats to the team and to anyone who voted for the plugin! Thank […]