6 responses on “Blair Williams: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin”

1. Blair Williams
   May 21, 2010 at 10:08 pm | Reply

   The slides that go along with this presentation can be downloaded from my blog here:

   http://blairwilliams.com/pimp

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2. R'phael Spindel
   May 25, 2010 at 5:23 am | Reply

   Great talk!

   A very light weight PHP MVC framework advocated by PHP creator’s Rasmus’ which is very much along the lines of the style of quick lightweight MVC you talked about here, as well as workable within WordPress architecture without the conflict issues of extra included libraries is “The no-framework PHP MVC framework” (yes, basically includes), but described very well here:
   http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/38-The-no-framework-PHP-MVC-framework.html

   (also.. CRUD = Create *Read* Update Delete)

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3. R'phael Spindel
   May 25, 2010 at 5:36 am | Reply

   Viewers may also want to take a look at Tina MVC for WordPress
   http://www.seeit.org/tina-mvc-for-wordpress/

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4. R'phael Spindel
   May 25, 2010 at 6:05 pm | Reply

   @Blair, at 38:00, you talk about creating a mock test suite for WordPress. There has been a fair amount of work done in that area by John Bintz, in two projects called MockPress and a plug-in called Post Fixtures.

   MockPress:
   http://github.com/johnbintz/mockpress

   WordPress Post Fixtures:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-fixtures/

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5. Blair Willaims
   May 25, 2010 at 8:38 pm | Reply

   R’phael — that is some really interesting information — I’ll definitely take a look at the Tina MVC framework. I have to wonder though if you’d run into versioning issues between plugins if 1 plugin needed version x of Tina and another installed plugin needed version y… That is one reason why I like the self-contained, no-conflict MVC — but I’m definitely going to play around with Tina MVC — it’s a great concept.

   I was unaware of these WP testing frameworks — I’m soooooo excited to start looking at them. That has been one pretty major issue I’ve seen so far with WP Plugin development and if these guys have workable solutions for this it would be awesome…

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6. Herman Boomsma
   May 25, 2011 at 4:08 pm | Reply

   This is a good introduction to using MVC in WordPress plugins. It also covers the basics of MVC itself. His approach is thought-through and usable as a base for a standardized way of implementing MVC in WordPress plugins. I think a standardized approach is important because otherwise MVC wont be of much help when it comes to clarity. Maybe such a standardized way already exists, but I did not find much information on the subject until I found this video.

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