Development

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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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20 Apr 2018

How to Learn Design From Competitor Websites

Creating ideal web designs for a site is not an easy task. Different types of websites have different goals, and you need to work accordingly. For instance, if you are working on a lifestyle blog, graphical images and white space are the norm. That said, for an educational website, a simpler design would work fine. …

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19 Apr 2018

Small Businesses Need to Get Ready for AI

From self-driving cars to stores with no checkout stations, AI is changing our world. The business world is jumping aboard the AI train. Their eyes are focused on big profits. With its potential to reduce labor costs, provide marketing information, and reach new heights in data management, artificial intelligence stands poised to change business just …

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18 Apr 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 3: Unit Testing For WordPress REST API Plugins

This post is part of a series of posts on extending the WordPress REST API using advanced object-oriented PHP. In the first post, I showed you how to use three filters to modify the schema of any post type route. Using an object-oriented approach is more complex, and takes more work than using functional programming …

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13 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy

While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance. So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as …

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11 Apr 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 2: Setting Up Automated Testing Of WordPress REST API Plugins

In my last post, I showed how to modify the WordPress content endpoints using WordPress hooks — aka the WordPress plugins API — during REST API requests. The practical example changed the underlying query to improve search. Now I need to test that code isolated from the WordPress plugins API. For this article, we will …

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9 Apr 2018

Back to Basics: A New Developer’s Guide to Creating WordPress Products

Your New Year’s resolution might have been to start developing for WordPress. However, despite the platform’s ease of use, there’s still a learning curve to master. You’ll find there are plenty of resources available to help you begin, but understanding everything involved could prove challenging. Fortunately, the basics of developing for WordPress are easy to …

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Development

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

How to Learn Design From Competitor Websites

Small Businesses Need to Get Ready for AI

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 3: Unit Testing For WordPress REST API Plugins

Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy

Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 2: Setting Up Automated Testing Of WordPress REST API Plugins

Back to Basics: A New Developer’s Guide to Creating WordPress Products