The blog is starting to get pretty slow. Right now it fetches content from a list of sites that I’ve written, but it’s slow when not cached. The cache isn’t persistent. Thinking about making a cron that primes the cache hourly.
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How Session Storage Can Improve Site Performance
Session storage can make your website faster, and reduce server load. Learn how to use JavaScript’s sessionStorage as a caching system.
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Alex Standiford
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Alex Standiford
SessionStorage can be used in much the same way as WordPress’ object cache, only it’s directly in the visitor’s browser instead of on the server.
It’s a key element in what makes nearly headless so, so fast.
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Coding Optional – Part 2: Get started making Blocks quickly with plugins
Are you ready to get started making Blocks on your clients’ websites? You can do this without being a coding expert. Join Alex in this 3 part series as he walks you through different ways to approach creating WordPress blocks. We’ll start with why you should consider creating and using Blocks compared to the Classic […]
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Alex Standiford
I wrote a pretty detailed article on how to build a nearly headless WordPress website on @css
This goes into detail on how the Nicholas router works, and how to build the markup for your theme.
PS: this is full site editing compatible!
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Alex Standiford
Looking to break into #WordPressDevelopment or just #webdev in general? Here’s the learning path I recommend, with resources to get you going. 🧵👇 First, learn HTML. This is the most-fundamental part of the web. It is mostly memorization. The goal here is to know enough to know what to Google. Take the course 1-2 times. Don’t stress if you don’t know every single tag, they’ll come in time.
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Alex Standiford
I got some some serious no mans sky vibes from the moonrise yesterday.
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Alex Standiford
So, I knew the @css post was coming up over the weekend, and went ahead and added the site to my feed: alexstandiford.com/blog
Took a peek this morning to see if it automatically added the post, and voila! There it is.
Really enjoying this little aggregator of mine.
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Alex Standiford
I love that the new MacBook pros both have a physical escape key, and they’re double the width of most other escape keys. Talk about an over-correction 😂
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How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website
I believe that a traditional WordPress theme should be able to work as effectively as a static site or a headless web app. The overwhelming majority of WordPress websites are built with a good ol’ fashioned WordPress theme. Most of them even have good caching layers, and dependency optimizations that make these sites run reasonably […]
