Category: Tips for Developers
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How To Create a Sticky Post in WordPress
By default, your newest articles are published at the top of your blog. With every new article published, your existing articles are pushed down a spot — and eventually, off the front page completely. It can be disheartening when your best article drops off the front page. There are two main problems with this: One…
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A Guide to Using WordPress Logs to Track Errors
Use WordPress logs to fix problems that arise on your WordPress instance — or, more accurately, to figure out why they’ve occurred. This feature tracks errors and records them in one easy-to-locate file, so you can get started on the troubleshooting process. There are three basic steps to enable WordPress error logs: In this article,…
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Speed Optimization: the WordPress Plugins You Need
I’ve talked a lot about security over the last few weeks. This week, though, I want to talk about another important website attribute: speed. For anyone who experienced 56k dial-up, you could be forgiven for thinking today’s super-fast broadband connections have solved the problem of website speed. After all, most websites load within a few…
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Can Your Site Benefit from a WordPress Reverse Proxy?
While explaining how it works is a little more difficult, the essence of what a WordPress Reverse Proxy does is simple. It allows your WordPress site to be viewed through another domain, so that your visitors have no idea they’re on a different site or system. For example, let’s say you have a WordPress blog…
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The Complete Guide to Creating Custom Shortcodes in WordPress
In this post, we’ll take you step-by-step through the process of creating and using your own custom shortcodes. We’ll go over what shortcodes are, walk you through the entire process of creating a new shortcode, and show you how to modify and control the shortcode attributes and functions. Please note that this is a more…
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What is WP-CLI? And Why You Probably Want It.
A lot of developers seem to enjoy grunt work – the thrill of fixing problems, building things, and losing yourself in lines of code. But there’s only so much time in the day. And you probably have better things to be doing than repetitive tasks that end up taking longer than they should. When you…
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The Benefits of Managed WordPress Hosting: Why You Should Consider It
The Benefits of Managed WordPress Hosting and Why You Should Consider It.
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The Power of AI: How It’s Changing Development and Hosting
The Power of AI: How It’s Changing Development and Hosting
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Mastering Traffic Peaks [Strategies to Handle High Traffic in Website Visitors with Ease]
Strategies to Handle High Traffic in Website Visitors with Ease
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WordCamp 2020: On Stage in Phoenix as the Self Documenting Developer
The recent WordCamp Phoenix was once again a vibrant, community-focused event that was packed with useful content and friendly people. I was thrilled to speak on stage as a software developer to a great crowd of my fellow WordPress and engineer peers about documentation from a developer’s perspective, and how documentation has evolved over the…