Dev Branch
Weekly Developer Discussion About WordPress.
For the last 10+ years Jason, Sé and Cosper bring together people from the community to discuss WordPress and how it is changing our hobbies, businesses and our lives. Each week we bring together people from the community to discuss the developer side of WordPress and how it is changing our businesses and our lives.
This is built as a light-hearted edutainment show where education is an accidental byproduct. You’ll learn something in between the silly banter of these decade old friends sharing their wisdom on the internet for free.
First Friday of the month at 11:00 am Pacific
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This month on Dev Branch we discuss the the WordPress Plugin Directory and a new feature rolled out on it, Live Preview. Using the new Playground feature a plugin can be previewed in a live WordPress site to allow visitors of the plugin directory to test a plugin before installing it on their websites. We’ll…
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In this engaging episode of WPwatercooler titled “Playing the Fields API,” hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper sit down with returning guest Scott Kingsley Clark. No stranger to the show, Scott previously joined us in February for “EP443 – WordPress Fields API with Scott Kingsley Clark” and even before that in “EP398 –…
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In this episode of DevBranch, the roundtable, including Jason Tucker, Jason Cosper, Sé Reed, and Jos Velasco, discusses the complexities of development and design within the WordPress environment. They touch on the abstract nature of clicking through settings, comparing it to a “Fisher Price control panel,” and discuss the simplification of design components, likening it…
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The era of PHP5 support is coming to an end, marking a new phase in WordPress development. We’ll discuss how this shift from PHP5 to a minimum PHP7 support will impact both the end-users and the WordPress ecosystem at large. The episode will include the implications for those still using PHP5, and the benefits of…
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This week on WPwatercooler’s Dev Branch the crew will be discussing WordPress Plugin development and the process involved in doing so. Coding, testing, submitting, approval, and ultimately being used on WordPress websites.
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In this episode of WPwatercooler, we’ll be joined by Robert Rowley, a Security Expert, to discuss a critical aspect of building sites with WordPress — plugins. Specifically, we’ll delve into the topic of abandoned plugins and the risks that they can pose to website security.
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This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing some different ways to WordPress with generating a static website with WordPress and using SQLite database integration. Links
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This month on Dev Branch we’ll be discussing Test Driven Development with Steve Grunwell
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This month on Dev Branch we’ll be discussing the removal of the Active Install Growth Data chart for plugins. There has been much discussion about this data in the plugin details and why was it removed. We’ll be joined by John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell who have been discussing this at length. Panel: John…