georgestephanis

Your First Block

To make things simple, we're going to make a semi-structured way to display a mailing address.

We're going to start with a file tree that looks like this:

address-block
  ├ blocks
  | ├ address.jsx

ericandrewlewis

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

kadamwhite

JavaScript Coding Standards

The core WordPress PHP files become cleaner and easier to read with every release, thanks in part to our strong standards for PHP code style. Our JavaScript, on the other hand, hasn't gotten nearly enough love. This post is intended to open up the recent discussion around JavaScript style to the greater community so we can make up for lost time.

Don't we already have a style guide for JavaScript?

Back in March, @tommcfarlin added a set of coding standards for JavaScript to the developer handbook. These WordPress JS coding standards were a great work-in-progress, but weren't fully comprehensive (leading to some comment threads clarifying various areas). More importantly, without any clear implementation plan the style guide failed to gain traction.

At WordCamp Boston's core