Category: Employee Post

How to Stay Healthy While Working from Home

Those of you who have the opportunity to work from home understand that while there are clear benefits to making your home your office, there are also challenges we face every day. While working from home, staying healthy can be a real...

Attaching Posts with CMB2 for WordPress

CMB2 creates metaboxes and forms with custom fields that will blow your mind. Attached Posts in an extension of this extremely useful plugin. Every once in a while you may find yourself needing to attach various pieces of content to various other pieces...

Community Benefits from Peer Code Review

Nobody likes being told that they’re wrong, right? Unless, I guess, you’re some kind of masochist. Personal quirks aside, though, everybody can benefit from somebody else taking a looking at their work and providing feedback. It happens informally all of the time;...

Using Transients with WordPress to Cache All the Things!

Update 12/8/2014: I’m not going to tell you not to cache all the things. You should absolutely cache all the things. However Otto wrote up a convincing argument about why you shouldn’t cache all the things using transients in the comments. So,...

Website Design Workflow: Creating a Living Style Guide

There is no shortage of information about style guides. In fact, while I was writing this post I saw a tweet from Brad Frost announcing the launch of styleguides.io which he described as “an open-source website for sharing resources about style guides:...

A Beginner’s Guide to Contributing to WordPress

I’ve been working with WordPress since 2006, but never on WordPress. In other words, I’ve never contributed code. Excited and nervous at the same time, I started asking other team members for help. It was suggested that I start with the handbook, however, my...

Debugging with Xdebug, VVV, and Sublime Text

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR DEBUGGING TO THE NEXT LEVEL?! ARE wp_die AND print_var JUST NOT CUTTING IT!? XDEBUG IS THE ANSWER! Xdebug is a PHP extension that provides advanced debugging capabilities such as breakpoints, watch expressions, and more in-depth error reporting.

Hacking WordPress Search for Fun and Profit!

I spoke at WordCamp SLC last month on the topic of WordPress search. Why did I speak on the topic of WordPress search? you might ask. I mean, everybody knows WordPress search is dumb and doesn’t work very well, you might add....

Setting up WordPress + Nginx + HHVM For The Fastest Possible Load Times

One of the most enjoyable parts about writing code is writing efficient and performant functionality. No matter how fast your code is, if your server itself isn’t running to it’s maximum performance, you’re not delivering your site as fast as you could be....