Under the Hood of WordPress — Exploring the Engine and Tools

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Explains how WordPress works internally, covering its architecture and proven design decisions that power about 43% of the web. Reviews new WordPress APIs and ecosystem tools for developing and operating the CMS.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:36WordPress philosophy
3. 3:23Automatic updates
4. 6:35Composer install
5. 7:16WordPress Playground demo
6. 8:22Backward compatibility
7. 11:54Event-driven hooks
8. 17:18Database drop-ins
9. 20:10Request handling
10. 21:38Custom tables
11. 23:23Translation/localization
12. 25:10Multisite scalability
13. 26:15REST API integrations
14. 27:42Gutenberg overview
15. 30:14Security challenges
16. 33:03WordPress mission
17. 34:04Q&A: Plugins & security
18. 35:10Q&A: Authorization
19. 36:16Q&A: API stability
20. 38:26Q&A: Table blocks
21. 39:56Q&A: New dev advice
22. 41:00Q&A: Static analysis
23. 42:31Q&A: Composer hooks
24. 43:36Q&A: Hooks risks
25. 45:24Q&A wrap-up

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