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Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to…

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

RescueTime, which I've used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance. https://blog.rescuetime.com/a-beautiful-life-is-all-about-maintenance/

WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

How to make a user experience that doesn't suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That's understandable, but it's Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.

Lessons in Maintenance

Dan Knauss

September 19, 2022

What's the best approach to maintenance — in software, sailing, or anything else? Hope for the best? Stewart Brand takes a famous solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race as a parable about maintenance styles that will win, go beyond winning, or drive you mad.

Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12

Daniel Schutzsmith

September 15, 2022

Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.

Ask a #WordPress Question: As a Senior Developer with little WordPress experience, how can I best showcase my WordPress skills to clients?

Dan Knauss

September 15, 2022

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Sometimes we get questions — because we have a form for WordPress Questions. Go ahead, ask away!

This one is from Jordan at DamnGood.tech.

What is a WordPress developer?

Dan Knauss

September 5, 2022

That was the question on an episode of Woo DevChat with Ebonie Butler, Lisa Canini, Robbie Adair, and Kathy Zant. It's an interesting to compare their views and experiences with the ones shared by Zach Stepek, Till Krüss, and Carl…

Why I (still) love…

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

What do you (still) love in tech that's old? (Tell us in the comments.)

jQuery in the UK

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

Getting rid of jQuery on gov.uk Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK: The main disadvantage of using jQuery is that it has to be included in the page assets, which can slow down how quickly a site loads. GOV.UK's pages…

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…

Blogging with a Newsletter

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

It shouldn't be this complicated... Nice end result though, by using "a potent combination of MDX and MJML." Josh Comeau explains his workflow from Markdown to static site publishing and an email newsletter. It's a complex arrangement, but doing it…

WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer's site.

Two Tools: Better Presentations from iA and Super Fast Collaborative Code Editing with Zed

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

iA is developing a Markdown-based, radically simplified presentation app (called Presenter) that helps you tell stories effectively. Zed is the spiritual successor to Atom — and focused on fast, collaborative editing. You can get it at GitHub.

The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it's the fastest he's seen, and I imagine he's seen a lot.

Advanced Phone Fields for Gravity Forms

Dan Knauss

August 29, 2022