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One big opportunity for using JavaScript interfaces with the WordPress REST API is improving WordPress admin and settings screens. I wrote a post for Torque recently on using the REST API and jQuery to build settings screens. It was a good introduction but normally, I would use VueJS. In the future, I’ll write more specifically about how to do that with VueJS, but I’d like to cover two important pain points I’ve dealt with getting to the point where this is my go to approach — compiling ES6 and template creation. I’m a big fan of VueJS for a lot […]

SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions have been very popular for the past decade. Surprisingly, WordPress seemed to be relatively underpenetrated compared to the rest of the industry. However, the recent WooCommerce move to a straight renewal process might be the first sign of growing trend in the WordPress universe. It’s been more than a year since we founded and launched Weglot, a new SaaS plugin for multilingual in WordPress and I wanted to share some thoughts and views on this topic. Why SaaS? SaaS is a way of delivering applications via the cloud, as a service, paying a monthly […]

Since WordPress 3.4, the Theme Customization API has emerged as an important PHP and JS based API in core. It introduced developers to a standardized way of adding theme options in the Customizer panel of the WordPress Dashboard. Last year while working on a project, I found out that adding panels, sections, and control and setting options with the Customizer API is somewhat time-consuming — since they have so many similar options and it’s a tiring process of going back and forth with the documentation. It brings a lot of hassle, and I think the basic concepts of WordPress customizer should be incredibly […]

For the last few years many people, including me, have been talking about how WordPress has evolved to where it can power applications, including SaaS platforms. One of the reasons for this is the WordPress REST API. And while I completely agree with this, one of the reasons I think it’s a great choice is that we have several full-featured eCommerce solutions. I wrote about implementing my own subscription billing system using Laravel Cashier and comparing it to working with a WordPress eCommerce platform a while ago. Since then I’ve thought alot about what an eCommerce system like WooCommerce or […]