I am very specific about my workflow. I like things a certain way. DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself, has been the core philosophy behind the way I work. If anything seems like a grunt task, something that I find myself doing, again and again, I will work to automate it. Thankfully, WordPress automation tools and scripts allow you to optimize several tasks. Once automated, things become easy and error-free. Manual work, with less modular code, is always hard, takes a lot of time, and gives me a great deal of pain. One of the most tedious problems is reloading your browser everytime […]
Introducing Faces of WordPress, the People and Projects behind WordPress
As of 2017, WordPress powers over 28 percent of the internet. The success of WordPress, like all open-source projects, is a testament to the collaborate work of the community that surrounds it. Since WordPress first launched more 14 years ago, tens of thousands of people have participated in the project. While we couldn’t find a specific number indicating exactly how many people have participated in creating WordPress, consider this, in 2016 alone there were 115 WordCamps in over 41 countries and 3,193 Meetups in 52 countries. And, in November of 2016, 17,000 people got together to help translate WordPress into […]
Torque Toons: Ice Cream Widget
Last week we made a silly cartoon about a Fidget Spinner Widget, then Ryan Hoover made an actual working version! So we thought we’d try our luck again this week and see what happens.
Streamline Your Workflow with WP-CLI
Faces of WordPress is a community-centered project that celebrates the people behind WordPress and the projects they create that collectively drive WordPress forward in a way that directly benefits the community or the core software. Share your WordPress story here. WP-CLI is changing the way developers work in WordPress. At the most simple level, WP-CLI is a set of command line tools used for managing WordPress installations. It takes commands that are already known and makes them easier to retrieve. Daniel Bachhuber, lead WP-CLI project maintainer, shared his WordPress journey and talked about the current state of the project, and what’s in store for the […]
WordPress for Enterprise: Why Your Site Should Use WordPress
Building and running an enterprise website presents a unique set of challenges. Enterprise sites often represent large, multinational business entities and as such need to work on a similar scale as their parent companies. That usually means lots of pages, subdomains and subsites, high traffic, and localized content. In the past, enterprise websites would often rely on proprietary custom solutions. Closed systems that make users dependent on their vendors and, as commercial products, also represent a financial commitment. However, if your goal was to build a site for your business, this was the way to go. WordPress, on the other […]

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