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If your WordPress site was analogous to the human body, the core code would be the brain and your plugins and theme would be the rest of the central nervous system that makes the site do what you tell it to do. However, in the Information Age, where data is currency and the lifeblood of …

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21 May 2018

5 Key Elements of a One-Page Website

One-page sites are becoming popular in 2018, mainly due to the rise in mobile device browsing and the subsequent need for short, impactful information. They’re also perfect for developers who need to offer a summary of their services to potential clients. However, knowing what to include on a one-page site isn’t always easy. One-page sites …

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16 May 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Pt. 4: Setting Up With WordPress Test Suite For Integration Testing

In my previous articles in this series, I showed how to structure a WordPress plugin using object-oriented PHP. Then I covered unit testing. Unit tests cover each component, totally isolated from all other parts of the system. Unit tests should not be concerned with how the object interacts with any dependencies including the database and …

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16 May 2018

Designing Swappable Search Request Implementations – Code Review Part 4

In the last article, we identified that the task of generating posts, albeit arbitrary, is just one possible implementation of getting content for a search query. As such, we split the tasks of “getting content” and “generating posts” into separate methods. This design sets us up for a discussion about designing swappable search request implementations. …

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14 May 2018

A Breakdown of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks for 2017/18

Website security: two words that should be of paramount importance for all site owners. Security is big business online, mainly because it’s so vital that to ignore it can mean catastrophic consequences for your website and its user base. However, some security issues are more pertinent than others – and figuring out what’s most important …

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7 May 2018

How to Translate Your WordPress Website Using the Weglot Translate Plugin

Translating your WordPress website into other languages is a smart way to reach a wider audience and increase your traffic. If your site is only available in a single language, you could be losing out on a lot of potential leads and conversions. Fortunately, you don’t need to speak multiple languages to translate your site …

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2 May 2018

Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

In the last article, I walked you through a code review and refactoring process for the FilterWPQuery class in Josh Pollock’s plugin. We made his class more readable and performant. But we did not cover the posts generator code in the getPosts() method; rather, I left that review for this article. Why? There are two reasons. First, …

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1 May 2018

How to Optimize and Increase Email Subscriptions on Your WordPress Site

If you’re not collecting emails on your website, you should be. If you’re currently collecting emails on your site, you could be collecting more. We all could be. That’s where conversion optimization comes in. Email list building is important for any website, but particularly for those publishing content (no matter what business type). If email …

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27 Apr 2018

Are WordPress Developers Really Cheaper to Hire?

One of the arguments for using WordPress is that affordable help for the platform is easy to find. It’s something I have seen claimed around the web a lot of times and I have made this argument myself, repeatedly. It seems simple enough: WordPress has less of an entry barrier for developers, meaning it’s easier …

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25 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

In the last article, I walked you through the problem of letting “no go” conditions flow through your code. I showed you how to refactor the code to solve the problem and make the code more readable. In this article, you and I will continue doing a code review and refactoring of the FilterWPQuery in Josh …

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24 Apr 2018

Preparing your content for the Extended Reality (XR) Future

You’ve probably heard rumblings in the tech industry around the innovations in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. These mediums can broadly be defined as Extended Reality or XR. My first venture into development in XR was in 2010 when I was exploring Flash development. My application was straightforward; show the webcam a Quick …

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23 Apr 2018

Improving Native WordPress Search

If you have ever worked on a WordPress site with a massive amount of posts and pages, you might have noticed something about the WordPress search: it doesn’t perform well. In this article, we dive into why the default WordPress search doesn’t scale and some ways to make it better. How WordPress Searches By default, …

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Developers

Making your WordPress Database HEART Healthy

5 Key Elements of a One-Page Website

Advanced OOP For WordPress Pt. 4: Setting Up With WordPress Test Suite For Integration Testing

Designing Swappable Search Request Implementations – Code Review Part 4

A Breakdown of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks for 2017/18

How to Translate Your WordPress Website Using the Weglot Translate Plugin

Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

How to Optimize and Increase Email Subscriptions on Your WordPress Site

Are WordPress Developers Really Cheaper to Hire?

Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

Preparing your content for the Extended Reality (XR) Future

Improving Native WordPress Search