If you’ve wanted to dive into Jenkins, chances are that the first thing on your mind is deployments. And if you’re like me and have absolutely no idea what you’re doing, it’s even more likely that you will be completely confused on...
Read More A Jenkins Pipeline for WordPress ProjectsAuthor: Jay Wood
How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post Type
Recently, one of my favorite themes, Zerif Lite, was suspended from the WordPress repo. As I was reading about the issues involved, it got me thinking: Just how hard is it to migrate a widget to a Custom Post Type? According to ThemeIsle, this was...
Read More How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post TypeHow to Download FTP Files in WordPress
Recently, I was given the opportunity to work on a really cool importing project that involved us pulling data from an FTP server and importing that into WordPress. It led me to look deeper into the Filesystem API; WordPress does this already, and I...
Read More How to Download FTP Files in WordPressDeveloper Devolution: Why I Stopped Using Vagrant
Vagrant is an awesome tool and works really well–for most applications. At WDS, a LOT of our peeps use Vagrant for their day-to-day activities, and chances are you’ve seen Brad Parbs‘ VV at some point, or may be using it right now. However,...
Read More Developer Devolution: Why I Stopped Using VagrantHow to Avoid a Server Apocalypse
As we all know, running an un-managed server can be a hassle. There’s always something you’re not prepared for–and that’s what my story is about! Sometime ago I was dealing with brute force attacks, and during that time, I thought it was fun to...
Read More How to Avoid a Server ApocalypseCommon Freelancer Fails and How to Avoid Them
The freelancing world is a fierce place to be, and for a newbie freelancer, this is especially true. Competing against the world online can seem like a futile endeavor, which is why most freelancers start off in their hometown or nearby cities working...
Read More Common Freelancer Fails and How to Avoid ThemDIY: Twitter Share Counts (Part 2)
In part one, I showed you how to talk to the Twitter API, get the tweets, and count them. In this post, I’m going to show you how to handle those popular posts with 100+ tweet shares, we’re going to loop over...
Read More DIY: Twitter Share Counts (Part 2)DIY: Twitter Share Counts (Part 1)
From time to time, you may get clients that want share counts to be displayed on their site. There are indeed SAAS (software as a service) services out there that do this for you, but what if a third party isn’t possible? Since Twitter...
Read More DIY: Twitter Share Counts (Part 1)Debugging WordPress Tips and Snippets
Most developers know of the common WP_DEBUG in the config file, but some don’t know there are way more possibilities with WordPress and PHP in general. In this article, I’m going to show you some tips and tricks that I use when debugging WordPress plugins...
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