Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, or […]
WordPress for Startups – 10 Amazing Features That Make It an Ideal Solution (2019)
Is WordPress the right platform for your startup site? In the process of searching for the perfect CMS for your startup company, you might have asked yourself that very same question. The decision what system to base the website of your fledgling business on can be intimidating and confusing. After all, there are a number of alternatives, all with their own pros and cons. Not to worry, we’re here to save the day like Superman. In this article, we’ll look at a number of reasons why you should consider using WordPress for your startup. In the end, we want you […]
Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator
In the last article, I walked you through a code review and refactoring process for the FilterWPQuery class in Josh Pollock’s plugin. We made his class more readable and performant. But we did not cover the posts generator code in the getPosts() method; rather, I left that review for this article. Why? There are two reasons. First, I wanted to give us time to thoroughly review this section of code. There are several areas that we can improve. This code provides a learning opportunity to improve your own code as we dive into code style, PHP namespace importing, string processing, and more. […]
Big Ideas and Open Source
During the 2017 WP Engine Summit, leaders from four agencies delivering innovative digital experiences with open source participated in a panel at the WP Engine Summit in order to explore and dissect how they have implemented open source in their work and where they see it going for the future. The panel consisted of Greg Crockhart, CEO at CandySpace, Karim Marucchi, CEO at Crowd Favorite, Isabel Kantor, Senior Technology Director at R/GA, Ben Howerton, Cofounder & Chief Strategist at DevMethods and was moderated by Eric Jones, VP Global Communications for WP Engine. Most Noteworthy Implementations of WordPress The panelists […]
Ultimate Guide to WordPress eCommerce: Settings
Welcome back to our series on WordPress eCommerce. In previous installments, we learned about the different types of eCommerce as well as some of the shopping carts available. In this post, we are going to walk through the different settings you need to configure before launching your online store. This article features WooCommerce, arguably one of the most, if not the most, popular WordPress plugins, with more than one million active downloads worldwide. Getting Started Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin (just like you would with any other plugin), you’ll notice two new tabs on your left navigation bar—WooCommerce and Products. Now […]
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