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  • Speed Up Your Plugin With the WordPress Object Cache
    Essays

    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
    Listicles

    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
    Listicles

    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
    Essays

    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
    Listicles

    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
  • My Frighting Experience In Taos
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    My Frighting Experience In Taos

    This tells a tale of the time we were boondocking in Taos and were met with some unexpected visitors late in the night.

    September 8, 2021
    funny, Maria, new mexico, RV Life, taos, travel
  • How to Handle Big Tasks in WordPress
    Essays

    How to Handle Big Tasks in WordPress

    Learn a few different ways you can use to do big tasks, like database migrations, or upgrades using WordPress.

    September 2, 2021
    composer, composer-packages, php, Underpin, WordPress
  • Signs You Should Not Use a Custom Post Type
    Essays

    Signs You Should Not Use a Custom Post Type

    Custom post types get misused all the time. Learn to identify the signs that you should not use a custom post type in WordPress

    August 26, 2021
    custom-post-types, WordPress
  • Handy Underpin Helper Functions That Make WordPress Development Easier
    Essays

    Handy Underpin Helper Functions That Make WordPress Development Easier

    Learn about a few handy helper functions that the WordPress plugin framework Underpin provides

    August 19, 2021
    php, Underpin, WordPress
  • How Registries Make Your WordPress Plugin Scale-Able
    Essays

    How Registries Make Your WordPress Plugin Scale-Able

    Learn about the registry pattern, how WordPress uses this code pattern, and how you can use it for your own plugins

    August 12, 2021
    php, Underpin, WordPress
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