This week we've taken a look at the other side of running a WordPress business - the development.

We were joined by Alain Schlesser and Anton Ukhanev, two great developers who believe that developing your plugins and themes (and WordPress core itself) to as high a standard as you can will only help your business and the WordPress community grow further.

WordPress is growing in popularity, exceeding the 30% mark for the number of websites running WordPress worldwide. However, it's also facing some controversy within the community over the approach being taken to Gutenberg, especially from developers.

I won't give too much away, so listen in to hear about the pain-points within WordPress from a developer's perspective, how this affects those running businesses around WordPress, and where the WordPress community went wrong and what it's doing right with Gutenberg and more.

 

Links:

Alain Schlesser

* alainschlesser.com

* Twitter: @schlessera

* Github: schlessera

* Dependency Injection and Design Patterns in Real Life (WCEU Workshop)

* Code example from the Workshop

Anton Ukhanev

* Twitter: @XedinUnknown

* Github: XedinUnknown

Other Resources

* PHP: The Right Way

* Learning OOP in PHP

* PHP Code Standards (Dhii) - What is Dhii?

* Join the Make WordPress Slack

* Gutenberg and the Future of WordPress: Conditions for Success - Morten Rand-Hendriksen

* Other talks from Alain Schlesser on WordPress.tv