Update: For more information, you can download our free ebook, The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API. In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how to write a simple plugin to create and edit posts using the JSON REST API. While this could be the basis of a cool, front-end editing plugin — with the addition of some fields and CSS, and the implementation of the TinyMCE or similar, of course — the point isn’t to reverse the engineering of the WordPress post editor, but rather to introduce you to processing form data using the REST API and AJAX. After you understand how […]
5 Things to Consider before Going Full-Time with WordPress
So you’ve worked hard at building up your WordPress business. You’ve reached a steady stream of website traffic and new customers, and you have plans in motion for future products and overall business growth. However, you still haven’t taken the full plunge; you’re still hanging on to a part-time job doing something that you never truly enjoyed. WordPress is what you love, and now, you’re wondering if it is time to go full-time with your business. But unfortunately, you don’t know how or where to start. You don’t know if you’ll be able to support yourself, and your family, solely […]
WordPress 4.1 Welcomes a New Class of Committers
With WordPress 4.0 released, it’s time to once again look to the future, WordPress 4.1. Over the weekend, Andrew Nacin announced our new release lead for 4.1, Jack Blackbourn, and a couple of guest committers that are coming along for the ride. John Blackbourn has been a core committer to WordPress for the better half of a decade, and has made some pretty incredible contributions to the WordPress community — with valuable blog posts, and plugins like Query Monitor, User Switching, and WP Crontrol. Blackbourn will be joined by a new group of guest committers, with a few names you’ve […]
Best WordPress Plugins for Mobile Optimization
Have you been on a date/night out with friends/any social gathering lately? Let me make a bold prediction: At some point, the conversation you were having ceased because the other party was staring onto their cellphone to check Emails, Facebook or “quickly look something up on the web.” If it wasn’t the other person, it was probably you. So am I psychic? No. It’s merely the times we are living in. Cellphones and other mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives. I mean, have you seen the line for the new iPhones? Whether this development is good […]
Improving WordPress Development Workflow with Composer
A dependency manager is one of those magical tools, like a smartphone, that most people (myself included) didn’t know they needed until they tried it, but once they did, they were hooked. A dependency manager wrangles together all of the different pieces that go into a plugin or theme — such as frameworks, JavaScript libraries, jQuery plugins, or even the plugins, themes, and libraries that makes up a WordPress site. There are lots of dependency managers out there, but the standard for PHP development is Composer. Composer is user friendly and works great with WordPress. Keep in mind that one […]

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