Welcome to Episode 43 of Apply Filters.  Today we dig into Backpress, a PHP library of some of the core functionality of WordPress.  Backpress grew out of the core of WP and is now the muscle behind GlotPress, a popular web-based software translation tool.  However, the future of this tool is in question.

This episode was sponsored by WP Ninjas, the creators of Ninja Demo and the highly popular Ninja Forms plugin.

 

This episode is sponsored by Dreamhost and their new Dream Press 2 managed WordPress hosting platform.  Dream Press 2 offers HHVM, which is an alternative to standard PHP, created by Facebook to optimize their site early on, and allows for page load speeds up to 25% of a normal page load time.  For more information, check out dreamhost.com/applyfilters.

 

As always, first and foremost big thanks go out to Scott Fennell for his review of the show.  Scott, thanks for writing such a great review and letting us know what you enjoy about the show.

If you leave a review in iTunes shoot us an email letting us know and Pippin will review your plugin for you.

Updates

Brad

Released free WPMDB 0.7 2 weeks ago

Released WPMDB Pro 1.5 + Multisite Tools addon today

Wrote blog post – Miami retreat

WordPress Library Review: Extended CPTs

As a team, we’re switching up our WP Core contribution day

I finally stopped reviewing every GitHub notification.  Our team is working so well together that I don’t feel the need to review every change that is made.

Pippin

Easy Digital Downloads 2.4 beta 1 is launched

Amazon Payments enabled

This week I wrote a blog post on Batch Processing

Today’s Topic:  BackPress

A quick follow up from Episode 39 on responsive images, this article: WordPress, Responsive Images, and Dynamic Image Sizes by Morten Rand-Hendriksen talks in depth about how responsive images may work in WordPress.

BackPress is a PHP library and some of the core functionality of parts of WordPress.  The concept is similar to Laravel.

BackPress Revival Receives Rocky Reception from WordPress Development Community

“Why I care what happens to BackPress”

Reasons against making GlotPress a plugin:

“Personally I’m a fan of the idea that projects like Joomla will use GlotPress for their translation management.”

“WP can’t server the biggest sites without caching. And GlotPress can’t be page cached.”

Post Type Labels for Featured Images

If you’re enjoying the show we sure would appreciate a Review in iTunes.  Thanks!

Transcript

INTRO: Welcome to Apply Filters, the podcast all about WordPress development. Now here’s your hosts, Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard.

BRAD: Welcome to Episode 43. Today, Pippin and I discuss what we’ve been up to, what BackPress is, and whether or not it should be killed.

But first, this episode is sponsored by DreamPress 2, DreamHost’s new managed WordPress hosting platform. I wanted to learn more about the HHVM part of the platform, so I reached out to Mike Schroeder over at DreamHost.

MIKE: I’m Schroeder, and I’m the WordPress platform lead at DreamHost.

BRAD: What is HHVM?

MIKE: HHVM is an alternative PHP runtime that was created over at Facebook. Essentially, they found that the current PHP was not performant enough for their needs and went and developed another way to run PHP.

BRAD: How performant is it?

MIKE: It’s sometimes not quite as fast with the first page view, but what it does really well is that once a particular page has been visited, it is astoundingly quicker than PHP. Some of our tests under load, it even performed comparably to cache tests, so around 55 milliseconds in some cases under heavy load with load stress for a page to get returned, which is, especially under load, astoundingly quick. That’s, in some cases, 25% of the speed of a normal page view for PHP for some heavier pages.

BRAD: Cool. How do I turn it on in DreamPress 2?

MIKE: Within the DreamHost panel, it’s just a chec