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Daniel Bachhuber is the new maintainer of WP-CLI

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Travis Northcutt
Today Cristi Burcă (perhaps better known as scribu) announced on the WP-CLI blog that Daniel Bachhuber will now be the maintainer of the WP-CLI project. As Cristi notes, he's no longer using WordPress, so it makes perfect sense to hand off the project…

Microcaching with Nginx

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Travis Northcutt
Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains that…

WordPress.vim

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Travis Northcutt
Darshan Sawardekar has released a very impressive looking plugin for Vim, appropriately titled WordPress.vim. If you use Vim as your editor/IDE, you should definitely check this out. The plugin includes support for an impressive array of features and other tools,…

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

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Travis Northcutt
Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. I…

Theme composition vs frameworks

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Travis Northcutt
Tom J Nowell published a great post today on theme composition vs frameworks. He points out a problem with theme frameworks: what you need or want to do doesn't always fit the way the framework is laid out. The problem…

Introducing Dictator

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Travis Northcutt
Daniel Bachhuber just announced Dictator, a "provisioning system for WordPress." One key idea Dictator adopted from provisioning systems: environments are ephemeral. WordPress no longer doing what you want it to? You should be able to destroy it and provision a…

Redis object cache for WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress has long had a Memcached backend available for object caching. Over the past several weeks, Eric Mann and Erick Hitter have built out a Redis-based alternative for object caching. Updated Source: https://ethitter.com/2014/04/redis-object-cache-plugin-available-for-download/

Synchronize WordPress uploads across environments

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Brian Krogsgard
Iain Poulson has written a nice tutorial summarizing five different ways to sync uploads / media across WordPress environments. This is a common problem, and he approaches the solutions using different methodologies, including via FTP (least preferred), rsync, Migrate DB Pro,…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

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Brian Krogsgard
PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it's notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name…

An introduction to transients in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Transients are an excellent way to speed up complex queries in WordPress.  Dave Clements shows you in this post how you can use transients to avoid bringing a site to its knees like he did, by caching those queries instead…

WordPress capabilities magic with map_meta_cap

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Brian Krogsgard
Mannie Schumpert has done a nice job offering some practical examples using map_meta_cap. Mannie also took all of the examples from Andrew Nacin's excellent WCSF talk from last year. If you are dealing with roles and permissions, the things from…

Debug Bar Slow Actions

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Travis Northcutt
Konstantin Kovshenin announced a new plugin called Debug Bar Slow Actions, an extension for the Debug Bar plugin. Konstantin's new plugin ...adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request. This…
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