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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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2 Apr 2018

A Beginner’s Guide to Content Syndication

If you’re frequently publishing content on your ‘dev blog’ or elsewhere on your site, you’ll obviously want it to reach as many people as possible. This is possible through ‘syndication’ – essentially, getting your content onto multiple blogs at once. Content marketing can positively impact the number of leads you get, so automating the process …

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28 Mar 2018

Advanced OOP For WordPress: Customizing REST API Endpoints To Improve WordPress Search

I’ve written a lot about object-oriented PHP and the WordPress REST API for Torque over the past few years. I’ve also touched on using Composer for dependency management and to provide an autoloader, as well as covered unit testing. The basic message of everything I’ve written is that by applying the established best practices of …

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26 Mar 2018

How to Optimize Your Content For Smaller Screens

Mobile device users have been in their billions for a number of years now (with the number steadily rising). In fact, over half of internet users now browse the web primarily via their devices. Therefore, it’s important to ensure that the content you create for your website can be easily viewed on smaller screens. Developing for …

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22 Mar 2018

Top 10 Tips To Fix Most Common WordPress Security Issues

Three out of every four WordPress websites are vulnerable to attacks. If your site is hacked, it will not only cost you in terms of restoring the system back to a safe level, but it will also damage your reputation and affect your search engine ranking. But if you follow some best practices you can …

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21 Mar 2018

Why and How to Increase Dwell Time on Your WordPress Website

Dwell time and how to increase dwell time are often neglected elements of search engine optimization. You, too, probably mostly concentrate on how to get visitors on your site and rarely give a thought about how to keep them there. However, dwell time, the amount of time visitors spend on your site, is an important …

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19 Mar 2018

The Beginner WordPress Developer’s Guide to wp_enqueue

While WordPress is powerful, there are plenty of under-the-hood features that can help you maximize its efficiency. In fact, overlooking inherent functions such as wp_enqueue could even impact your site’s overall effectiveness. If you optimize your themes and plugins correctly, you can improve your site’s performance while enhancing user experience. The wp_enqueue function is a great …

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15 Mar 2018

Tips and Tricks for Using WordPress for Digital Signage

Digital displays have entered a new era in the advertising arena. From static displays to dynamic displays, business owners today have so much to choose from as far as marketing their brands is concerned. Compared to simple advertisement solutions, digital displays guarantee more attraction. Post-2010, several industries have embraced digital signage as a marketing avenue. …

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14 Mar 2018

Choosing Between React and Vue For WordPress Development

A few months ago I wrote on Quora, in response to a question if it’s better to learn Vue or React first. I said, “Learn VueJS first. I’d say that even if I knew there was a 100% chance you’d be using React in a year.” I’ve learned a lot more about React since then …

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Development

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Content Syndication

Advanced OOP For WordPress: Customizing REST API Endpoints To Improve WordPress Search

How to Optimize Your Content For Smaller Screens

Top 10 Tips To Fix Most Common WordPress Security Issues

Why and How to Increase Dwell Time on Your WordPress Website

The Beginner WordPress Developer’s Guide to wp_enqueue

Tips and Tricks for Using WordPress for Digital Signage

Choosing Between React and Vue For WordPress Development