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WordPress Caching: The Six Different Things People May Mean
“Caching” is, generally, the solution you hear offered for most performance problems a WordPress site has. For things other than WordPress sites, too, caching is one of the easiest and most effective...
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Apply Filters →I listen to a lot of podcasts. And I’m not aware of any that are as focused, regular, and interesting to me about WordPress development as Apply Filters. Brad Tousnard (of WP Migrate DB...
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More than half of what matters about a WordPress site is stored in its (typically MySQL) database. Why? Because WordPress stores all its “content” in the database. For most people, that makes it even...
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Introduction to WordPress Term Meta →Term meta is one of the most exciting features of WordPress 4.4. In summary, it means we can start to add data to terms — categories, tags, etc, that we’ve been...
View ArticleWhy WordPress is a Great Bridge into Being a Web Professional
It seems that in the last ten years the whole world has decided that being a programmer, or at least doing work that somehow involves the internet, is a great thing. Every week we hear of a new...
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A Survey of the JavaScript Landscape for WordPress Developers
JavaScript has been a growing topic in the WordPress ecosystem for almost as long as it has existed, but a few recent events are forcing people to pay attention with even more urgency. First, in the...
View ArticleA Method to Encourage More Translations of Your Plugin
A Method to Encourage More Translations of Your Plugin →This is a rather interesting post from Marius Jensen. In it he explains how you can intelligently determine if a plugin user is using WordPress...
View ArticleGentle Introduction to Functional PHP for WordPress Developers: Using Filter...
Fred’s post last week was about filtering through arrays of posts and ordering them. He foreached through arrays, and then used PHP’s usort() function to get a list of alphabetized posts with comments...
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WordPress’s Conservatism: The Best Worst Thing
At the end of last week, there was a bit of action on the front of the WP (JSON) REST API finally and fully arriving in WordPress core so it can be used universally by plugins and projects without the...
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How To Stop a Post Publishing (Without a Featured Image) in WordPress with...
This week’s post is something new. It’s new in two ways. First, rather than being a mostly text post, I made this first as a screencast. If that’s a speed and format you like, watch away. (You’ll...
View ArticleHow To Stop a Post Publishing in WordPress with PHP
Last time, we talked about how the Require Featured Image plugin stops a WordPress “post” from being published without a feature image attached in JavaScript. That approach is limited (as a few...
View ArticleUnderstanding PHP Globals and Variable Scope in WordPress
One of the most maligned features of WordPress is the rampant use of “globals variables.” There are huge decades-long discussions in software development circles about why heavy reliance on globally...
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But Seriously, What is a REST API Anyway?
Despite all the hubbub that has been going on about the chronically forthcoming WP REST API, there is one crucial thing that I think a lot of WordPress developers may not fully understand: What the...
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A Survey of the JavaScript Landscape for WordPress Developers
JavaScript has been a growing topic in the WordPress ecosystem for almost as long as it has existed, but a few recent events are forcing people to pay attention with even more urgency. First, in the...
View ArticleA Method to Encourage More Translations of Your Plugin
A Method to Encourage More Translations of Your Plugin →This is a rather interesting post from Marius Jensen. In it he explains how you can intelligently determine if a plugin user is using WordPress...
View ArticleGentle Introduction to Functional PHP for WordPress Developers: Using Filter...
Fred’s post last week was about filtering through arrays of posts and ordering them. He foreached through arrays, and then used PHP’s usort() function to get a list of alphabetized posts with comments...
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WordPress’s Conservatism: The Best Worst Thing
At the end of last week, there was a bit of action on the front of the WP (JSON) REST API finally and fully arriving in WordPress core so it can be used universally by plugins and projects without the...
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How To Stop a Post Publishing (Without a Featured Image) in WordPress with...
This week’s post is something new. It’s new in two ways. First, rather than being a mostly text post, I made this first as a screencast. If that’s a speed and format you like, watch away. (You’ll...
View ArticleHow To Stop a Post Publishing in WordPress with PHP
Last time, we talked about how the Require Featured Image plugin stops a WordPress “post” from being published without a feature image attached in JavaScript. That approach is limited (as a few...
View ArticleUnderstanding PHP Globals and Variable Scope in WordPress
One of the most maligned features of WordPress is the rampant use of “global variables.” There are huge decades-long discussions in software development circles about why heavy reliance on globally...
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