Technology & internals
How the plugin works, and the web technologies behind it.
7 articles, in the order most people need them
Material UI in plugins
WordPress ships React, so Material UI can run inside a plugin — including the Shadow DOM fix for theme CSS.
Cascade layers
Unlayered CSS always beats layered CSS, so a @layer makes your rules weaker. How to use layers regardless.
reCAPTCHA without keys
Google no longer issues domain-independent keys. Serving the captcha from your own server, and securing it.
The upload algorithm
How a file of any size is uploaded reliably: chunking, resumption, and the checks made at each stage.
Big file uploads
Why browsers and PHP make large front-end uploads difficult, and what the plugin does about each limit.
Plugin architecture
What the version 4 rewrite changed, and why the internals were redesigned from the ground up.
Running JavaScript from PHP
Generating and running JavaScript from PHP inside a plugin, without breaking the page it renders into.
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