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Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

ByBrian Krogsgard
When moving your WordPress website, the site’s URL can be saved in the database in many places. Find the easy way to change all of the URLs using a PHP script to search and replace the database for your development or staging URL and replacing it with your new URL.
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A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

ByDan Knauss
Here’s an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic’s mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack: Why don’t we support a single API in our apps? Wouldn’t that make our lives…

Nonces that are used only once

ByBrady Vercher
The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that’s all that’s necessary, but to generate a nonce that really is used only once, Stephen Harris details a method to…
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What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce

ByDan Knauss
Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It’s a technical kind of rebranding that’s a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to the timeline for this key feature’s development, HPOS will be feature complete and released with…

Create Better Code with GenerateWP

ByBrian Krogsgard
A quick and easy way to generate the required code for Sidebars, Menus, Custom Post Types, and a few other elements you’ll likely need for your theme and/or plugin. With the visual tips/help, it makes coding these areas a breeze!