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ByBrian Krogsgard
Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a “maximum age” versus a “guaranteed expiration”. He also makes a worthwhile point about how even when you store transients, it doesn’t mean they won’t be expired…
Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly
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Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

ByBrian Krogsgard
If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the announcement post, here are the technical bits: VIP Quickstart is a mix of Vagrant, Puppet,…

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

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