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  • How Fast Should You Travel When Full-Time?
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    How Fast Should You Travel When Full-Time?

    I know a couple who, during their 2-year long full-time stint in their camper, stopped and was very happy to be out of their camper for good. They mentioned how much they missed having more-space, and dealing with harsh cold winters, as well as their struggles they had with some issues with leaks in their […]

    November 27, 2021
    Maria, RV Life
  • The Path to a Career in WordPress Development
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    The Path to a Career in WordPress Development

    Looking to get into WordPress, but don’t know where to start? This guide will walk you through everything you need to learn.

    November 16, 2021
    WordPress
  • How Session Storage Can Improve Site Performance
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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.

    October 21, 2021
    javascript, nearly-headless, optimization, WordPress
  • How to Build a Nearly Headless WordPress Website
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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 […]

    October 18, 2021
    nearly-headless, projectNicholas, WordPress, WordPress Plugin
  • Three Ways You Can Use a Hash In Your WordPress Plugin
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    Three Ways You Can Use a Hash In Your WordPress Plugin

    Learn about what a hash is, how it works, and how you can use it to make your WordPress plugin run more reliably, and faster.

    October 14, 2021
    optimization, php, WordPress
  • Speed Up Your Plugin With the WordPress Object Cache
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    Speed Up Your Plugin With the WordPress Object Cache

    Learn how you can use an object cache to make your WordPress plugin run faster, and skip repeated sections of code.

    October 7, 2021
    optimization, WordPress, WordPress plugins
  • Three Tools To Make Your WordPress Plugin Extendable
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    Three Tools To Make Your WordPress Plugin Extendable

    Learn about hooks, decision lists, and middleware patterns, and how you can use each one to make your WordPress plugin extend-able

    September 30, 2021
    Underpin, WordPress, WordPress plugins
  • 5 Ways Underpin Helps You Build Better WordPress Plugins
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    5 Ways Underpin Helps You Build Better WordPress Plugins

    WordPress is not a framework, it’s a management system. When building WordPress plugins, there’s a few rough rules on how to use WordPress, but otherwise you’re pretty much on your own to build your plugin’s architecture. I use Underpin to help me create structure in my plugin. This post talks about 5 of the biggest […]

    September 23, 2021
    php, Underpin, WordPress
  • Stop Returning false for Errors
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    Stop Returning false for Errors

    I want to squash once and for all. Learn about a better WordPress alternative to using false – the WP_Error object.

    September 16, 2021
    Best Practices, WordPress
  • 4 Ways To Generate Test Data in WordPress
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    4 Ways To Generate Test Data in WordPress

    Manually adding this data to the database takes a lot of time. Learn how to generate WordPress data automatically.

    September 9, 2021
    composer, useful resources, WordPress, WPCLI
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