Custom URL Rewrites in WordPress – A Getting Started Guide

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onJanuary 21, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

Creating custom URL rewrites in WordPress, using an easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial.

You’re using transients wrong

ByBrian Krogsgard October 24, 2013January 31, 2015

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…

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Creating a widget

ByBrian Krogsgard March 11, 2013January 31, 2015

Widgets are one of WordPress’s most powerful features. They are very easy to create but are often created in a wrong way. This posts explains the how to create a basic widget the right way.

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Build better template files for your plugins

ByCurtis McHale October 8, 2013January 31, 2015

Pippin Williamson walks us through the right and wrong ways to build template files for plugins.

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Core caching concepts in WordPress

ByCurtis McHale June 10, 2013January 31, 2015

Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.

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When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress

ByDan Knauss September 27, 2022September 27, 2022

Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then it might make sense for them to focus on the frontend of the site while…