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WordPress for Modern Developers | Samuel Levy
Discover how to harness the power of Lumen, a lightweight framework, to transform WordPress into a modern application, overcoming limitations and empowering developers with better database access and routing.
- WordPress is a legacy platform and not built with modern principles in mind
- It’s hard to work with custom post types, they don’t fit neatly into the standard template hierarchy
- Lumen is a lightweight framework that can be used to run a modern application on top of WordPress
- Using Lumen as a theme in WordPress allows for more flexibility and easier development
- The biggest challenge is getting database access to work properly with WordPress and Lumen
- Using Corcel, a Laravel package, to integrate with WordPress provides a good starting point
- Lumen can be used to run a full, modern framework on top of WordPress, providing a better way to interact with the database and routing
- Using modern tools and techniques with WordPress is possible, but it requires a good understanding of the platform and its quirks
- The future of WordPress development lies in embracing modern technologies and frameworks to build more scalable and maintainable applications.