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Resources

  • 10up Engineering Best Practices

    As a company, we strive to provide websites and components that yield a top-notch user experience. In order to improve efficiency, we need to standardize what we use and how we use it. Standardizing our tools, frameworks, libraries, style, version control, and even languages will allow us to understand better the inner workings of someone else’s project and produce better solutions ourselves.

  • Automattic

    We are the people behind WordPress.com, which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month, as well as a host of other popular services, such as Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We are strong believers in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under licenses like the GPL.

  • Awesome WordPress by dropndot

    A curated list of Awesome WordPress Theme, Plugins and Framework development Resources and WordPress Communities.

  • Awesome WordPress Developer Tips

    Curated list that contain very awesome and ready code, snippets or examples without libraries or external packages made it for developers.

  • Best WordPress Hosting Providers Compared

    Detailed article/comparison of the best WordPress hosting providers.

  • Konstantin Kovshenin

    WordPress, Automattic and Open Source

Plugins

  • All-in-One WP MigrationCustom Post Type

    The plugin allows you to export your database, media files, plugins, and themes. You can apply unlimited find/replace operations on your database and the plugin will also fix any serialization problems that occur during find/replace operations.

  • AnalytifyCustom Post Type

    Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress – by Analytify makes simple and complete Google Analytics for everywhere in WordPress (posts, pages and custom post types)

  • Antispam BeeCustom Post Type

    Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WorddPress blog or website. Antispam Bee blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively and without captchas. It is free of charge, ad-free and compliant with European data privacy standards.

  • AutoptimizeCustom Post Type

    Autoptimize is an effective performance tool that speeds up a website by optimizing JS, CSS, images (incl. lazy-load), HTML and Google Fonts, asyncing JS, removing emoji cruft and more.

  • BackWPupCustom Post Type

    The backup plugin BackWPup Free can be used to save your complete installation including /wp-content/ and push them to an external Backup Service, like Dropbox, S3, FTP and many more, see list below. With a single backup .zip file you are able to easily restore an installation.

  • Broken Link CheckerFeatured Plugins

    This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

Core

  • Automated Testing

    This is an overview of running and writing tests for WordPress. Automated testing is running test cases where manual intervention is not required to run each one. This is usually in the form of writing test suites which have multiple test cases and a library and command line tool that runs the test suite or suites. The test suite execution is usually manual, from the developer choosing which suites on the command line to run, but this isn’t required. The process could be automated and looked over from time to time to ensure that when the code changed, no problems were introduced.

  • The Customizer API

    The Customizer is a framework for live-previewing any change to WordPress. It provides a simple and consistent interface for users to customize various aspects of their theme and their site, from colors and layouts to widgets, menus, and more. Themes and plugins alike can add custom options to the Customizer. The Customizer is the canonical way to add options to your theme.

  • WordPress Coding Standards

    The purpose of the WordPress Coding Standards is to create a baseline for collaboration and review within various aspects of the WordPress open source project and community, from core code to themes to plugins.

  • WordPress on GitHub

    WordPress, Git-ified. Synced via SVN every 15 minutes, including branches and tags!

Themes and Framework

  • Bones

    An HTML5, Mobile-First starter theme for rapid WordPress development.

  • CherryFramework

    Fully responsive design, easy install, steady updates, great number of shortcodes and widgets, integration of Bootstrap functions. All brought to you by Cherry Framework for straightforward experience in website design

  • create-wp-react-app

    WordPress CLI to generate your next modern plugin with the power of REST API, webpack, babel, MobX and MobX State Tree

  • Gantry Framework

    Next Generation Theme Framework. Gantry was born when the RocketTheme development team wanted to consolidate our extensive set of custom Joomla and WordPress template functionality into a simple, easy to use framework

  • HTML5 Blank

    The HTML5 WordPress boilerplate theme.

  • Kirki

    Kirki is not a framework. It's a Toolkit allowing WordPress developers to use the Customizer and take advantage of its advanced features and flexibility by abstracting the code and making it easier for everyone to create beautiful and meaningful user experiences.

Gutenberg

Books

  • Digging Into WordPress

    There is much to learn about the World’s most popular publishing platform. From your first steps of learning about WordPress all the way through securing, customizing, and maintaining your site into the future, this book is packed with truly practical information.

  • The Story of WordPress

    The history and development of WordPress. The book is currently in version 1, having been written by Siobhan McKeown, edited by Krista Stevens, and with helpful pull requests from members of the community.

Commandline

  • WP-CLI

    WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browse.

  • WPScan

    WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner.

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