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Cool tools and tech talk for designers, developers, and engineers working with WordPress.

WordPress Performance Optimzation

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Brian Krogsgard
Performance matters because a positive (fast) user experience facilitates all goals a publisher or application developer might have. WordPress, like most applications, has numerous moving parts that must be considered when trying to scale.

Avoid the pains of pagination

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Brian Krogsgard
UX Movement explores various painpoints of pagination. A good reminder for those of us creating pagination in WordPress themes and client sites. Are we giving it enough thought?

Getting a menu name in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
I had the hardest time figuring out how to return the saved name for a given menu. After spending way too much time in Google, I stumbled across this simple function that does the trick.

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

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Brian Krogsgard
Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

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Brian Krogsgard
Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…
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