Interviews, notes and occasional deep dives on WordPress, hosting, AI and engineering practice, by Marco Chiesi.
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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