There are some exceptional tools that can be used for WordPress development that make the process way easier than it would be otherwise. I didn’t know about some of these early on in my WordPress development days, so for those of you who might not be familiar with them, I’d like to share.
WordPress uses wp_posts to store post, page, and Custom Post Type (CPT) data the wp_postmeta table for Custom Metabox data. To retrieve this data you have to read for the post plus multiple linked postmeta rows. In this post, we conquer postmeta with subqueries.
Redis is “an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius queries and streams.” Translation? It makes websites run faster.
API endpoints in web apps are pretty typical these days, but there may be reasons to provide data outside of the context of an application. In this post, we’ll explore how to make a stand-alone API endpoint using PHP and Amp.
This tutorial covers the basics of creating a view cell based upon an “articles” table, similar to the one from the blog tutorial on CakePHP.org. It is written using CakePHP 3.
The default format for the datepicker in CakePHP is neither particularly pretty nor user-friendly: Notice how the dropdown indicator arrows obscure part of the numbers,
Templates in Go are provided through the built-in package “text/template” and “html/template”. In this post, we’ll use the latter to show how to format simple
With over 50K packages in the WordPress.org plugin repository – all open source – the code within these plugins is all over the place. Getting
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