One of my favorite optimization techniques is using the Identical operator. Why? Because it’s such an easy replacement for the Equality operator and it works much faster. Wait, now you might be wondering “Equality Operator” ? … “Identical Operator” ? Aren’t those the same thing? Well, no. Let’s take a look. PHP has lots of […]
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Just recently, I upgraded my local version of PHP to the latest – v7.3.6. I know this version comes with a list of optimizations and it’s much improved over previous versions. And so this got me thinking about code optimization and how I have learned to write PHP code over time. Many years ago I
I often see a question about this in Facebook groups. Someone asks a question about “how can I remove X” from my theme, or a page, or a footer. Most recently, I saw someone asking how to remove the message “Built with Storefront and WooCommerce” from their footer. There is almost always someone who suggests
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We have spent a over a year in development and it’s finally here. We are very proud to announce the release of PeepSo – the Next Generation Social Networking solution for WordPress. You can find it here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/ In February 2015 we started talking with the good folks at IJooma, makers of JomSocial, about building
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Recently, someone from Germany connected with me. He’s a developer himself and setting up a pretty cool travel site, mostly written using the Symphony Framework. They wanted to integrate a WordPress blog and he had a hard time designing the flow of this Hybrid system. This is not the first time someone has emailed me
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In a way, WordPress is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s ease of use and popularity make it a great choice when starting a blog and building a web site. But this same popularity means that it is a huge target for hacking. For this reason alone, security should be taken seriously. If
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This morning, I participated in Jason Tucker‘s WPWatercooler podcast program. The topic of discussion was e-commerce plugins for WordPress. I’ve worked with several shopping carts for WordPress. These are all complicated plugins, just due to the fact that shopping carts are not easy. They require a large amount of code just to make the products
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From time to time, I have the need to create the contents for a virtual page — that is, a page that is not stored in the database. This sort of thing is easy using a framework like CodeIgniter, but WordPress’s thing is displaying content from your database and not virtual content that is created
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Allowing “just anybody” to write comments on your site comes with a potential cost: quite often these comment writers are spam. They’re only writing comments in the hopes of getting a valuable backlink from your site to their own and boost their SEO rankings. So if you want to reduce the “spam” and allow only
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People who are new to WordPress will almost immediately see something that might at first seem confusing — or at least strange. I’m talking about “prefixing.” In WordPress, prefixes are used on many things: function names, class names and even PHP defines. But you might be wondering why. The main reason is to avoid name