WordPress and PHP coding
Experiments, tutorials, scripts and possibilities in WordPress, key plugins and pure PHP to those who want to learn more together with us. References to latest changes on WordPress codex, classes and libraries built to help you coding better and a few tutorials and discussions useful for those who live WP daily.
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WordPress 5.8 – template editor can be a game changer
WordPress 5.8 will ship with the new template editor. Like Elementor and some other editors, this can be a game changer not only for designers – but especially for devs. It is a step towards creating a full site editing tool using the block editor, which means you can expect it to get better with future releases. After complex integrations and plugin/module development jobs, I can certainly say: building templates for apps is a pain […]
How to async or defer JS to make Google happier
SEO gurus and website owners became paranoid with Page Insights’ issues lately. Although most of them simply refuse to understand how a 100% optimization may affect the number of features they still want their sites to show, they keep asking devs to fix them all. When it comes to WordPress websites, particularly those using sophisticated plugins, deferring or running JS asynchronously sometimes prevent snippets, blocks or even entire pages to render properly. Yes, we can […]
WP-CLI: first steps on WordPress’ command line tools
Before any trend of using Composer, NPM, Yarn or any other command line tool within WordPress’ themes and plugins development, devs have already been using a set of command line tools which had been particularly designed for managing WP instances. WP-CLI is a command line tool which is extensible, comprehensive and easy to use. Even for tasks like plugins’ updating, reinstalling the WP core or optimizing the database, it should be the first option for […]
Best and worst builders for WP developers
Website builders and block editors are consolidated within WP community. And even for devs, losing time with layouts is useless when you cancache just build templates in minutes. So, if using them is key, how can devs choose the best option? Well, excluding the UI characteristics, we should always look for three aspects: Possibilities of extending features Documentation Interference with the rest of the code By all means, if any builder may harm or crash […]
Making error 500 easier to find and fix in WordPress
Debugging is part of any developers or even web designer or site administrator. However, some errors and exceptions are really hard to track, as messages are not clear enough. Error 500 standard page is an example of that. It simply says it found a “server error” and that’s it. It behaves like a software telling you: “ok, I am trying, but your code sucks”. Of course most scripts come with some debugging possibilities, so WordPress […]
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How to remove metaboxes from the WP block editor
There has been a while since the WP block editor, or “Gutenberg”, was first introduced to the community. While the possibilities of the editor are obviously immense, especially […]
How to easily hijack the browser back button and why you shouldn’t do it
That has been a practice widely used by “SEO specialists” to retain users for more time within their websites. The trend led to a large number of WordPress […]
How to send emails to users inactive for X days in WordPress?
Sending emails in WordPress is something really simple. Yet, a lot of users, admins and even web designers and developers face troubles while triggering the mailer. We are […]
Create a simple PSR-4 compliant autoloader for any plugin
A lot of PHP developers involved with WordPress projects, especially those developing plugins, opt for using Composer. Not only for requiring libraries they can use, but also for […]
Using the singleton pattern to deal with constraints
Almost any WordPress or PHP programmer, even in his early days, has some contact with the Singleton design pattern. For obvious reasons, this is maybe the first PHP […]
Woocommerce – a much better way of checking if an user has purchases
This week one of our partners needed to implement a simple script for checking whether an user, in a Woocommerce website, had ever purchased anything. Searching the internet […]
Couldn’t we make wp_insert_post smarter? – Part I
WordPress legacy and functional programming actually makes all websites, those hundreds of millions using this CMS in the world, stay alive. However, for those who use to manage […]
Some WordPress native functions for dealing with arrays
Arrays are one of the most common types used in CMS scripts, which includes WordPress. Data is usually managed through arrays, so any functions that help us deal […]
Creating a custom post type helper class
Custom post types are one of the most crucial feature in WordPress. The way a developer can manipulate the platform’s API is fantastic, and complex systems can be […]
Using Symfony and WP_Query to return multiple formats
It’s not rocket science using WP_Query to return objects from posts in WordPress. Also, it’s relatively simple encoding or normalizing the responses to use data as associative arrays […]