Next Generation WordPress

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1. Next Generation WordPress Ryan McCue
 Director of Engineering at Human

   Made

2. Next Generation Previous Current

3. None

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:

23. None
24. None

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

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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
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    State of the Word photo: Brian Richards for Post Status hmn.md