Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.
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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. alexstandiford.com/blog
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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. #WordPress wpdev.academy/wordpress-tuto…
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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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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! css-tricks.com/how-to-build-a…
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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.…
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I got some some serious no mans sky vibes from the moonrise yesterday.
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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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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…
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I’m less concerned about the silliness of the whole “decode HTML” thing, and more concerned that someone was slapped for doing the right thing. Security is hard enough as it is, we don’t need people to be afraid to report issues, especially ones that are so blatant.