JavaScript and WordPress – The Definitive Guide
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.
Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, “even a half-assed solution pre-built beats building your own half-assed solution that youβll never get around to finishing.”
Here’s a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.
Rarst advocates for progressive enhancement and asks for JavaScript driven websites to fail gracefully, and Joe Hoyle rebuts.
Keeping Up with Gutenberg π§ Gutenberg 6.0 is out with significant enhancements to the column layout block, widgets block, and block group functionality, among other things. Felix Arntz explains how to leverage the power of Custom Elements in Gutenberg. Like many popular, component-based JavaScript frameworks, Custom Elements bring Web Components to WordPress β standardized “browser…
Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries) physically attended. Another 808 people in 37 countries bought livestream tickets. Florian Ziegler has shared…
Chris Lema has posted a nice tip for automatically changing WooCommerce order status when some orders a product. It’s especially usefulΒ in his context, as he sells digital downloads, and there’s no waiting period between processing and completing the order.