Next Generation WordPress

Explore what we need to push into the next generation of the WordPress project.

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1. Next Generation WordPress Ryan McCue
 Director of Engineering at Human Made
2. Next Generation Previous Current
4. 2003
 1.x
5. 2003
 1.x 2005
 2.x
6. 2003
 1.x 2005
 2.x 2010 3.x
7. 2003
 1.x 2005
 2.x 2010 3.x 2014 4.x
8. Blogging CMS Platform 2003
 1.x 2005
 2.x 2010 3.x 2014 4.x
9. 4.7 + 4.8
10. 4.x
11. Platform?
12. Platform = Next Generation
13. 1. Philosophy 2. Process 3. Projects Next Generation
14. Philosophy
15. Backwards compatibility Design for the majority Decisions, not options
16. The user comes first
17. The user comes first
18. User Experience
19. Developer User Experience
20. DUX
21. Developers Are Users Too Philosophy:
22. WordPress Sucks Spoiler:
25. Why?
26. WordPress End-users
27. WordPress End-users Developers
28. “What got us here, won’t get us there” — Matt Mullenweg, State of the Word 2016
29. All About Me
30. Process
31. How WordPress Works
32. Incremental development
 =
 Organic growth
33. “A rolling codebase gathers technical debt” — Ancient Australian proverb
34. Posts ➡ Pages ➡ CPTs
35. for end users for developers
36. Grand Design ≠ better
37. ~ 2 years pass ~
38. Design For Developers Process:
39. Rebuilding the Plane While Flying It
40. WordPress WordPress
41. Blog CMS Platform WordPress Architecture
42. Platform Blog CMS Next Generation
43. 1. Write wrappers 2. Test both old and new 3. Flip the wrapper
44. Retains Backwards Compatibility Write, Test, Flip
45. Projects
46. Set a Standard Projects:
47. wp_insert_post
48. wp_insert_post (Why?)
49. 1. Write wp_insert_post WP_Post::create $wpdb->insert( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts" ) wp_set_post_categories() wp_set_post_tags() wp_slash()
50. 2. Test wp_insert_post WP_Post::create $wpdb->insert( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts" ) exercise left to reader wp_set_post_categories() wp_set_post_tags() wp_slash()
51. 3. Flip WP_Post::create $wpdb->insert( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts" ) wp_set_post_categories() wp_set_post_tags() wp_slash() wp_insert_post
52. 3. Flip WP_Post::create $wpdb->insert( "INSERT INTO $wpdb->posts" ) wp_set_post_categories() wp_set_post_tags() wp_slash() wp_insert_post
53. WP_Post::create
54. WP_Post::create WP_Page Woo_Product WP_Revision Jetpack_Comic
55. Rewrites
56. <?php add_rewrite_rule( 'archives/date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$', 'index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]' );
57. Routers $app = new \Slim\App; $app->get('/hello/{name}', function (Request $request, Response $response) { Slim Framework Route::get('user/{id}', function ($id) { Laravel Symfony class BlogController extends Controller { /** * @Route("/blog", name="blog_list") */ public function listAction() {
58. 'index.php?rest_route=/$matches[1]' ); add_action( 'init', function () { global $wp; $wp->add_query_var( 'rest_route' ); }); add_action( 'parse_request', function () { global $wp; if ( empty( $wp->query_vars['rest_route'] ) ) { return; } // Finally, do something. }); add_rewrite_rule( '^wp-json/(.*)?',
59. function () { // Much easier. } ); add_rewrite_rule( '^wp-json/(.*)?',
60. 'index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]' ); add_rewrite_rule( 'archives/date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$',
61. function ( $matches ) { global $wp_query; $args = [ 'year' => $matches[1], 'monthnum' => $matches[2], ]; $wp_query = new WP_Query( $matches ); } ); add_rewrite_rule( 'archives/date/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$',
62. add_rewrite_rule( 'login/?$', function () { get_header(); wp_login_form(); get_footer(); } );
63. 1. Write wrappers 2. Test both old and new 3. Flip the wrapper
64. Bonus:
 No More Flushing
65. Autoloading
66. Drupal ✓ Joomla ✓ MediaWiki ✓ Magento ✓ WordPress ✗ Autoloading?
67. Autoloading
 is a trade-off
68. 15 MB 15,000,000 bytes
69. Autoloading Load Everything
70. Composer?
71. Plugin Dependencies
72. <?php /** * Plugin Name: Amazing Plugin * Requires: other-plugin, rest-api */ add_plugin_dependencies( __FILE__, [ 'other-plugin', 'rest-api' ] );
73. Conflicts? Plugin Dependencies
74. Already a Problem Plugin Dependencies
75. Even bigger?
76. Split WordPress
81. What is WordPress?
82. Do Not Break WordPress
83. Next Generation
84. 1. Philosophy 2. Process 3. Projects Next Generation
85. Developers Are Users Too Philosophy:
86. Design For Developers Process:
87. Set the Standard Projects:
88. Thanks. rmccue.io speakerdeck.com/rmccue core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31245 Frank the DUX Duck
 from Twemoji State of the Word photo: Brian Richards for Post Status hmn.md