WordPress’s default dropdowns for Authors and Parent Pages in WP Admin work well for most setups, but sometimes the large number of users can slow page load and exhaust memory. A solution that I like is replacing the user dropdown with Select2...
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Let’s Talk Cron
We’ve all heard about it, and we’ve all had to deal with it: Missed posts! It’s especially painful if you depend on your post content to get out on time, or worse, if you’re scheduling your posts to a social media outlet...
Read More Let’s Talk CronHow to View a Locally Developed Website on Other Devices
We’ve talked earlier about using Vagrant and VVV for local development, and now it’s time to take it a step further. Taking mobile devices into account when developing a website is no longer optional; it’s a requirement. That leaves you with a...
Read More How to View a Locally Developed Website on Other DevicesStaging Websites for Safe Development
Imagine you have been evaluating your web presence and have determined that there are tasks you need to work on to improve your website. After careful deliberation, your team has identified points A, B, and C are all either not working, or...
Read More Staging Websites for Safe DevelopmentCreate a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPress
As you may or may not know, the WordPress JSON REST API is on the horizon for a future version of WordPress. This will be one of the most important and influential additions to WordPress core we may see, especially for those...
Read More Create a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPressUse Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your Content
We’ve previously talked about the WDS Simple Page Builder plugin. But there have been some exciting new additions to the plugin that make it even more useful, as well as a full wiki explaining how to use it (for both devs and users)....
Read More Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your ContentThe Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and You
Today, JavaScript fills every aspect of our online lives: it checks your e-mail in the background, it guides your online shopping cart, and it even autosaves your blog post as you write. From the client to the server, JavaScript is everywhere. Sometimes it’s hard...
Read More The Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and YouAn Alternate Git Flow for Client Work
We’ve mentioned it before, but at WebDevStudios, we use git flow–a specific git workflow first proposed five years ago, though the original author, Vincent Driessen, says he had been using it for a year before posting about it. Git Flow works best...
Read More An Alternate Git Flow for Client WorkLesson Learned: PHP Memory Limits
If there is one thing I really love to do, it’s migrations. While the requirements for a migration vary from project to project, the purpose is generally the same: Get data from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of...
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