This tutorial goes through how to create a shortcode that allows you to create a notice for people who haven’t yet completed a specific Gravity Form on your site.
Jason Coleman describes just why the new WordPress Heartbeat API is beneficial, and gives a sample implementation to help get you started.
Tom Nowell has created a project called ComposerPress which analyses an existing WordPress install and creates a Composer .json file in your root directory. If you’ve already gotten to know the value of Composer, but need something to help bring your pre-Composer sites up to speed with your new workflow, then this is for you.
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.
Here are a few things I think about when I work on WordPress themes that other developers may encounter down the road. It’s good to work in a way that helps those who come after you know what you’ve done, especially when you have to do something that’s not particularly ideal.
Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack’s, using the settings API to their advantage, and a few other tidbits were really interesting here.
I love posts like this. I’ve never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it’s best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort of functionality. This is exactly how a short form tutorial should be.
