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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 […]

Time to update your PHP version

WordPress has PHP 5.2 as the minimum required PHP version. For a while now, PHP 5.4 has been listed as the recommended version. That’s a big step in the right direction, but I feel we can do more to help push the requirements forward. At Radish Concepts we work with a lot of different platforms, […]

What if we made BackPress a framework to power WordPress?

In my first video of the new year, I want to talk about something that’s probably never going to happen. What if we made BackPress a framework that powers WordPress and other applications? Like I said, it’s probably never going to happen, but it’s fun to think about and technically not entirely unrealistic.

A nice view on the politics behind WordPress being stuck at PHP 5.2

Tim Nash has published his predictions for the next year. The entire piece is worth a read, since I think Tim’s predictions are not far off, but the Bumping up PHP 5.2 part obviously sparked my interest: […] should we be aiding hosting companies, in supporting out of date potential security black holes. It’s clear that […]

Making my WordPress plugins require PHP 5.4

I think it’s time to start requiring PHP 5.4 in WordPress plugins. Even though WordPress still requires only PHP 5.2, I think it’s silly to keep telling people to run their websites on software that is no longer maintained for over four years now. With plugins though, we can make up these requirements by ourselves, […]

Today, I want to praise WordPress

For todays video, I wanted to praise WordPress for what it does so well. It’s simply the best CMS out there. With over 21% of the entire internet being powered by WordPress, it’s hard to argue that this is not the most popular CMS out there. You will often find me complaining about WordPress stuff […]

Jetpack does the opposite of the core WordPress philosophy

Eric Mann has published a post on his blog titled Bundling and Bloatware, in which he describes his frustrations with the Jetpack plugin doing a lot of the exact opposite of what’s in the core WordPress philosophy: The epitome of everything opposite of this drive to pare WordPress down to a barebone feature set was Jetpack […]

Why I don’t do full time WordPress work anymore

Earlier this year, I made the decision to stop doing full time WordPress work. In my new day job, I still work with WordPress though. The big difference is that I now have a bigger toolbox to select the best tool for the job at hand from. Working on just WordPress projects for a couple […]

Premium WordPress plugin developers, can we have access to your version control please?

We’ve been telling customers to always be on the latest and greatest version of everything WordPress related. It has become the de facto answer to any bug report: “Are you running the latest version of plugin x and y?”. That’s fine, for most use cases. But what if I’m in a situation where I can’t […]