Category: Tips for Developers
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Exploring Data Reliability Within WordPress
Site reliability is generally talked about less often than other performance indicators, like page speed. With many web hosts offering multiple 9’s of guaranteed uptime, it’s become less of a ‘hot’ topic and more of the norm that your site will be up 99.99x percent of the time. But what many people don’t realize is…
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Common WordPress Login Errors and What to Do About Them
It’s such a simple thing, isn’t it? Open your login page. Enter your user credentials into the login form. Click submit and gain entry into the backend of your WordPress site: We do it everyday and give it little thought. But what happens if you don’t see your WordPress dashboard or, worse, if you don’t…
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9 Tools You Should Be Using In Your Plugin Development
As web technology rapidly (and constantly) advances, it’s important to learn how to use modern technology to keep up with your rival developers, or risk losing out on much-needed work. While there’s a little bit of a learning curve for every new tool, being an early adopter helps you stay at the top of your…
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An Easy Guide to Creating WordPress Workflow Documentation
I like to think of workflow documentation as a sort of playbook for WordPress professionals. Think about it like this: Sports coaches and players rely on playbooks to provide them with tried-and-true strategies to win games. And, beyond that, those playbooks provide them with the physical steps and maneuvers needed to properly execute those strategies.…
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A Step-by-Step Quality Assurance Plan for Your WordPress Site
A brand new business might shell out $3K on a website and think it’s getting a bargain. However, when prospective customers start running away in droves because the site is: Slow Buggy Confusing Frustrating Unsafe Broken Well… It’ll quickly prove to be one of those “you get what you paid for”-kind of situations. I guess…
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The WordPress Codex: An Invaluable Resource for Better Coding
WordPress users and developers occasionally run into things that trip them up — this applies not only to novice users but to experienced WordPress developers as well. WordPress does not provide a dedicated support team to field questions or concerns, but their support forum is very helpful and manned by experienced and knowledgeable WordPress volunteers. You…
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8 Questions with WordPress Writer & Developer Rachel Adnyana
We’re all about spreading the love within the WordPress community. With that, we’re reviving an old practice of ours where we interview folks doing impressive things within WordPress, and share it here on the Pagely blog. This is the first of our revamped interview series, where we spoke with Rachel Adnyana, editor for Design Bombs…
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8 Web Design and Development Tools You Need to Know About
One of the things many people struggle with at work is making time to find ways to work smarter. It’s not like any of us don’t want to work smarter or faster. It’s just that mentality of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” that has a way of seeping in when we think about…
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How to Address Object Injection Vulnerabilities in PHP
I have been discussing the risks related to PHP Object Injection or insecure usage of unserialize() and how this insecure coding practice is unfortunately very prevalent in the WordPress plugin ecosystem. This post is for plugin (and really any PHP) developers for the purpose to share why you shouldn’t unseralize() data sent from untrusted sources,…
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How to use React with the WordPress REST API
I remember back when I learned how to develop for WordPress, I spent weeks in the Codex, learning the template hierarchy, the template tags, and so on. The Codex was like my Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: they might as well have printed “DON’T PANIC” on the front, because it kept me learning at a…