Most WordPress developers are familiar with the concept of actions and filters. At the very heart of WordPress, these hooks allow developers to extend the functionality of WordPress in numerous ways. Whether you want to run a process when a post is...
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I’ve written about New Year website prep before and how this is a popular time to give your website a good once-over for the new year. You can read Get Your WordPress Site Ready for the New Year: What to do Now!...
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The goal of this article is to show you how to configure webpack to watch and compile the JavaScript files in a WordPress plugin. What this article will not cover is how to configure webpack to work with every file type known...
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Editor’s Note: The following is Part 2 in a two-part series titled, “Headless WordPress with React and NextJS.” It was published in 2019. Code samples are now outdated. If you’re interested in current Next.js related content, please click here for updated content....
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When was the last time you started a project from scratch? I mean literally from scratch—not using a framework, a parent/child theme, or any plugins. Maybe never? One could argue that as long as you’re using WordPress that you’re not necessarily creating anything from scratch since...
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Editor’s Note: The following is Part 1 in a two-part series titled, “Headless WordPress with React and NextJS.” You can read Part 2 here. Keep in mind that this article was published in 2019. Code samples are now outdated. If you’re interested...
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I haven’t always been a WordPress developer, but anytime I get excited about a new framework, CMS, or platform I always end up coming back to WordPress both out of general principle and because it offers a more well-rounded package. Many others...
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As 2018 neared its end, a group of seven WebDevStudios (WDS) teammates, along with approximately 1400 members of the WordPress community, descended upon Nashville, Tennessee to attend WordCamp US 2018, in its final year in this honky-tonk city. WDS attended last year,...
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Single Sign-On (SSO) is one of those features every pointy-haired boss in the world wants on their websites. Managing user accounts and passwords across dozens of work-related sites gets very old, very quickly. The longer time went on, the greater the need...
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