WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates
Most WordPress plugin development follows the same arc. Somebody needs a booking form, a feed importer or an extra field at checkout, a developer writes it, it works, everyone moves on. Two years later the site is stuck on an old version of WordPress because nobody is confident that plugin will survive an update, and whoever wrote it has gone. The cause is rarely that core moves too fast. WordPress is conservative about breaking things, and plenty of well written plugins from five years ago sti…