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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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Coding Optional – Part 1: Get started making Blocks quickly
Are you ready to get started making Blocks on your clients’ websites? You can do this without being a coding expert. Join Alex 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 Editor and help you get started quickly creating Blocks without code.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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