Write your own HTTP API wrapper that throws exceptions — come on, you’re a programmer, do what programmers do: make a personal, convoluted abstraction layer. :-)
Andrew Nacin on WP_Error
Which is a nice read on wp-hackers by the way, about how WP_Error is used and why it shouldn’t be replaced by PHP5 exceptions, which I never liked. If you’re really thinking of writing an HTTP API wrapper, please don’t :)
You should update any and all plugins immediately when there is an
update available, period.If the plugin author has a habit of introducing new versions with
bugs, then you should stop using that plugin and find a different one
instead.I do not see it as a good idea to introduce anything which even
remotely suggests that it is okay to not update. It is not okay.
Update. Immediately. Always.
Otto via wp-hackers
Very well said Otto, and it’s also good to know that Chrome-like updates is one thing the core team is keeping in mind. Anybody else wants to suggest telling users to not update? ;) Here’s the beginning of the thread.
Easiest way to annoy @nacin: “When is WordPress moving to github?”
— scribu (@scribu) June 29, 2012
The answer is never. Here’s a git version of the repository synced with SVN every 15 minutes. Your pull requests will most likely be ignored. Enjoy! :)
Without a doubt, the worst code in core exists in admin/menu.php, admin/includes/menu.php, and admin/menu-header.php
Andrew Nacin
And in reply to Andrew:
It’s not code, it’s bits that met and became bytes.
Peter Westwood
Actual IRC discussion. “the core of wordpress use smarty?” “no” “is possible than in the future wordpress change the core to django?”
— Andrew Nacin (@nacin) January 5, 2012
I couldn’t not post this tweet by Andrew Nacin. Seriously, why not change the WordPress core to Django? ;) Perhaps the author of the quote meant a Django-style templating engine, which is indeed cool and quite popular too. Oh well, that was a good laugh, thank you!
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Don’t create a ”quote” shortcode when the HTML ”blockquote” tag does a perfectly good job. I’ve seen themes that have shortcodes for quotes, citations and headers but no support for the same styling with HTML tags.
Sawyer Hollenshead on Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell