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How To Move From Twitter to Mastodon
Learn how I made the switch from Mastodon to Twitter, preserving as much of my online identity, and connections as possible.
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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 camper. When I asked them how often they moved, they said “Twice a year”. This kinda shocked me. I can’t imagine living in a camper, and only moving two times a year. The single best thing a camper is its mobility, and these people chose…
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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.
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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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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 fast. But as developers, we have accomplished ways to create better results for our websites. Using a headless WordPress has allowed many sites to have faster load speeds, better user interactions, and seamless transitions between pages. The problem? Maintenance. Let me show you another possibility!…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 reasons why I use Underpin, and how it can help you build better WordPress plugins It Logs Everything It Does Underpin comes with a robust event logger. This logger allows you to log events that happen in your plugin. There are 8 event types that…
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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.