I remember the feeling of pride, excitement and determination to make something great, in the months prior to the launch of Listings. The project was born out of frustrations with WP Job Manager being abandoned after the Automattic acquisition and the idea that we could do something better. We made a plan to setup a […]
Author Archives: Coen Jacobs
The next chapter
In April of this year, Scott Basgaard and I started an adventure together. I became part of The Look and Feel as technical lead. We had all the right projects, exciting clients to work with and a lot of potential for our own products to launch. Later on, Rob, Gareth and Jack joined the team […]
Bundling libraries is not overhead, it’s a best practice
It’s been a while since I last posted something about the whole dependencies horror that I’m still trying to deal with in the WordPress ecosystem. Justin Sternberg’s post on the future of the CMB2 library got the discussion going again and soon after, we were at the dependencies discussion again. It was mainly the discussion […]
Video of my Love-Hate Relationship Between Composer and WordPress presentation
The video of my presentation about the Love-Hate Relationship Between Composer and WordPress at WordCamp Netherlands this year has been published on WordPress.tv: You can find the slides on Speakerdeck. It was a great audience with some really good questions that have given me plenty of food for thought regarding the whole subject. It’s too […]
Launching a product in a crowded WordPress market
Today I published the pre launch page for my side project Lapisense. In case you missed it, it’s a hosted activation and updates API for WordPress based products. If you don’t like running a plugin that does this for you, Lapisense might be a nice fit for your products. I got a ton of great […]
Explaining the WordPress plugins dependencies problem
There is a lot of confusion in the WordPress ecosystem when it comes to the issues around bundling dependencies. Peter Suhm has published a detailed post about this exact issue: A Warning About Using Composer With WordPress, where I have left the following (partial) comment: So imagine both of us loading library x in our plugins, both […]
Solving dependency management in WordPress plugins
I’ve been working on a proof of concept for solving dependency management in WordPress plugins for a while now. It was in a private repository on GitHub, where I would invite some people in to work out the most obvious issues, while keeping it a bit on the down-low (this is a big change, potentially, […]
How to get yourself to do things
I struggle with being a procrastinator. I’ve become better at managing things to do over the years, but still often find myself in the “unproductive phase” as David Cain explains it in his excellent piece: How to get yourself to do things. Seriously, go read it. When I read his post, it rings so many […]
This is how you deal with negative feedback
This morning I found out that the Instagrate plugin I use to import my Instagram pictures in my Moblog category, adds an HTML comment with a link to their website in every single post they import. As you might understand, I wasn’t really pleased about that, so I tweeted: Hey @polevaultweb, injecting links (even in comments) […]
Updating PHP is everyone’s responsibility
The number one remark I heard when I launched WPupdatePHP, is that users shouldn’t be bothered with this. In an ideal world, this is true, but in reality this isn’t going to stand for long. Allow me to explain why: The core WordPress team can’t get every single hosting company to comply. I admire their intentions, but in reality […]