Code reuse is key to solid development. When developing large-scale WordPress plugins and themes you are bound to write helper functions to solve certain tasks. WordPress has around 10,000 functions in its core so the probability that a helper function that you’re about to write already exists could be quite high.
This week’s been very busy for the core contributors and developers of WordPress. Here are some of this week’s major changes in WordPress trunk.
WordPress changeset #19842 in the trunk welcomed the initial commit of the new Twenty Twelve WordPress theme by Drew Strojny. 28 files of something completely different. The commit message describes Twenty Twelve’s:
…much more minimalist approach that affords easy use as a CMS in addition to being blog-forward
