Alex
Alex
@alex@www.alexstandiford.com

Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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  • With full-site editing just around the corner, learning how to build WordPress plugins that utilize custom blocks is more important than ever. My course shows you how to make a “beer” post type, customize the block editor, and make a block. #WordPress wpdev.academy/course/beer-li…

  • Sigh. I miss WordCamps.

  • In about an hour (4PM EST) I’m doing the part 2 talk about blocks. I’ll be building pages and talking about how I use the block editor as a full-site builder. If you’re running an agency and have been looking to update, don’t miss it. events.godaddy.com/events/details… #WordPress

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • I got some some serious no mans sky vibes from the moonrise yesterday.