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 […]
Are WordPress Developers Really Cheaper to Hire?
One of the arguments for using WordPress is that affordable help for the platform is easy to find. It’s something I have seen claimed around the web a lot of times and I have made this argument myself, repeatedly. It seems simple enough: WordPress has less of an entry barrier for developers, meaning it’s easier to get into. It also has the largest ecosystem among all content management systems. That should mean a high supply of developers, which should result in low prices. However, it recently occurred to me that I have no concrete evidence to support that claim. Like […]
Why Your eCommerce Store Needs AMPs ASAP
As you probably already know, mobile usage is on the rise. From checking the news to online shopping, mobile has become the easiest and most accessible way to get things done—partly because users can rely on their mobile devices to be available anytime and anywhere, which makes it convenient with our on-the-go lifestyles. People are not only getting more comfortable using their smartphones to do things like shopping, they are also spending more time using them. Just from 2016 to 2017, time spent per day on mobile has reportedly increased by seven minutes, reaching a total 3 hours and 15 […]
Sell On Your Own Site, Not a Marketplace
If you are thinking of selling WordPress products, you have two options: list on a marketplace, or sell through your own site. I’d highly encourage you to sell on your own site, here’s why. Giving Up Control Listing on a marketplace means that you are totally dependent on them for your traffic and sales. This is tempting in the beginning because if you don’t have any traffic they can provide it for a fee. 50 percent of a few sales is better than 100 percent of no sales, right? This is short-term thinking. Consider three years from now when you’ve […]
How To Build the Perfect WordPress Developer
What makes a great developer? To find out, I talked to people who work with devs the most, clients. So, as long as we’re contemplating how to build the ideal dev, I thought it would be fun to frame this discussion in the world of robotics. What features would the DEV-BOT 5000 include? What would interactions with it be like? Let’s see what clients said about their very real, 100% human interactions with developers to gain a better understanding of what this bot’s feature set would look like. The Perfect Developer Should… Be Communicative The ideal WordPress developer’s communication module […]
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