Development

240 posts in this category.

In March of this year, Iain Poulson published a post on the Delicious Brains blog called “Hey WordPress Plugin Developers, Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions In Your Plugins.” I agreed, and am a WordPress plugin author, so I read it and wished people would listen and moved on with my day without taking any action. …

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28 Aug 2018

How Smart Developers Are Using AI To Power Their Sites

The world is in the early stage of the so-called ‘fourth industrial revolution’, a time when technology is changing at a pace never before experienced. In the last decade, we have moved from mobile phones to smartphones and from virtual assistants to digital assistants, not to mention everything in between. As things progress in the …

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24 Aug 2018

How To Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

It’s possible to get an ecommerce operation up and running in minutes on WordPress with the aid of plugins like WooCommerce. From there you can start accepting online payments using Stripe, PayPal, 2Checkout, and a myriad of other payment gateway services, some of which don’t even require shopping carts. One drawback, however, is that not …

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23 Aug 2018

WordPress SEO: How to Improve Your Site’s Ranking

If you’ve installed WordPress before, you may have noticed that the default installation is not SEO-friendly. If you want to have a better search engine ranking, you need to optimize it first then, later on, find ways on how to promote your WordPress website. The good news is, you can enhance your site’s ranking with …

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22 Aug 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 9: Extensible Plugins Using the Plugins API

In this series on applying advanced object-oriented programming (OOP) principles to the PHP code we use in WordPress plugins, we are creating a plugin that modifies how REST API routes work to improve their search capabilities. One of the great things about WordPress is its extensibility. In this post, I’m going to walk through using …

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21 Aug 2018

Doc Pop News Drop: Should Developers Block Gutenberg From Client Sites?

Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. A recent thread on Reddit.com/r/WordPress sparked some good conversation about how website developers should handle the upcoming Gutenberg editor changes coming to WordPress. Many developers were …

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16 Aug 2018

6 Common Problems When Logging into the WordPress Admin Area

WordPress is a powerful platform for everything from personal blogging to enterprise sites. It contains an excellent set of features to make it as easy as possible to create online publications, make it pleasant and convenient. Daily on the forums, there are many questions about the most common issues with WordPress, faced by beginners. WordPress …

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13 Aug 2018

A Simple Introduction to CSS Grids

The advent of CSS grids has been described as “the internet finally getting its driver’s license“. In a nutshell, this is a web design technique that steps away from print-based design philosophies by using a responsive-style grid. It’s ultimately the most powerful layout system that’s currently available with CSS. Developers are often creatures of habit (and …

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8 Aug 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 8: Developing New Features For Extensible WordPress Plugins Using Test-Driven Development

In my last post in this series on advanced PHP object-oriented programming for WordPress development, I walked through refactoring the low-level API of a plugin, using tests to guide the process and make sure everything works correctly. I say “low-level API” because the focus was on the internal of how the system will work. I …

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7 Aug 2018

The Down And Dirty Way To Migrate A WordPress Website

A very common task WordPress site owners ever have to do is to move their site from one server to another. Reasons to do this include: You hate your web host and need a new service. You’d like a copy of your site so you can work on it either locally or from a remote …

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6 Aug 2018

Getting Started With JavaScript (And How It Compares to PHP)

JavaScript has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. There’s a growing need for WordPress developers to “learn JavaScript deeply.” However, making the switch from PHP can seem overwhelming at first glance. In our opinion, even if PHP is your only programming language, you should find the switch to JavaScript comfortable …

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3 Aug 2018

How Voice Search Will Impact SEO in the Future

In the world of search, the voice is an emerging trend and of course, something that should we should keep an eye on. Google algorithms change once or twice in a day. But rarely do we experience major ranking fluctuations in it. Those are actually the updates marketers are concerned about. We’re going to get …

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Development

How To Drop Legacy PHP Support In WordPress Plugins

How Smart Developers Are Using AI To Power Their Sites

How To Accept Bitcoin Payments in WordPress

WordPress SEO: How to Improve Your Site’s Ranking

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 9: Extensible Plugins Using the Plugins API

Doc Pop News Drop: Should Developers Block Gutenberg From Client Sites?

6 Common Problems When Logging into the WordPress Admin Area

A Simple Introduction to CSS Grids

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 8: Developing New Features For Extensible WordPress Plugins Using Test-Driven Development

The Down And Dirty Way To Migrate A WordPress Website

Getting Started With JavaScript (And How It Compares to PHP)

How Voice Search Will Impact SEO in the Future