Live workshop: How to build a WordPress plugin with Tom McFarlin

ByCurtis McHale Posted onMay 9, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

I’m sure we can expect nothing but awesome from Tom.

Share sidebars in WordPress Multisite with transients

ByBrian Krogsgard December 17, 2013January 31, 2015

Corey Collins goes in depth on the WebDevStudios blog to offer a solution to a problem experienced by many Multisite users: for sharing sidebars across a Multisite instance. The solution uses transients to store everything and a small AJAX function for clearing the transient when sidebars or widgets update.

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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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Polish your code

ByBrian Krogsgard October 2, 2013

If we can polish a turd, we can polish our code. Your code doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, it probably won’t be. But it should be clean, documented, organized, and use proper syntax. It should be polished. Polishing your code today will make you a better developer, and you’ll thank yourself when you…

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The Woo Snippet: This Week in WooCommerce (March 14)

ByBob Dunn March 17, 2022May 6, 2022

Newfold acquires YITH. The latest WooCommerce release notes. Inside Woo Support. $1.7 Trillion spent by US shoppers online during the pandemic.

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WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

ByDan Knauss September 28, 2022September 29, 2022

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

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Comprehensive guide to WordPress metaboxes

ByBrian Krogsgard February 14, 2013January 31, 2015

Alex Mansfield has published a very comprehensive overview of creating custom meta boxes in WordPress. It doesn’t cover every type of field, but if you aren’t using a class or other tool for building metaboxes, this will come in very handy. You may remember Alex’s previous guide to the theme customizer, too.

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