Interviews, notes and occasional deep dives on WordPress, hosting, AI and engineering practice, by Marco Chiesi.
Interfaces have spent decades getting friendlier, and yet the command line remains irreplaceable for some jobs. A practical tour of WP-CLI for people who do not consider themselves developers.
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The story of Black Studio TinyMCE Widget — 900,000+ active installs — and what a free plugin did for the two people who wrote it. A lightning talk with Francesco Canovi at WordCamp Europe in Belgrade.
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An introductory talk for developers who know WordPress but have never written a plugin: the conventions, the security basics, the architecture, and how to find your way through the documentation.
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A lightning talk on Grunt: how a task runner removes the repetitive parts of WordPress plugin and theme development, and why the laziest developers automate first.
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Ten pieces of advice from six years of building and maintaining a widely used plugin — and almost none of them are about writing code.
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The first outing of the plugin story, in Italian, at WordCamp Rome: a plugin 100% made in Italy with 900,000+ active installs, and the two authors behind it.
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