Unit testing is an indispensable tool for any developer, regardless of the language they use. The same goes for WordPress plugin development. However, I’m not here to regurgitate its importance, benefits and bla bla bla… I would like to talk to you about a more pressing issue instead: getting the damn thing set up on …
WordPress is an awesome and powerful tool. It’s not without reason that more than a third of all websites are powered by it. Unfortunately, its development workflow feels quite outdated and clunky when compared to PHP Laravel and many front-end frameworks. This can be mainly attributed to the core development team striving to never break …
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So there you are, minding your own business and creating a new WordPress site using Laragon. You’re about to finish the setup when suddenly… BAAMM!! You’re greeted with a page full of WordPress database error: [Table ‘<name>’ already exists]. What happened? You’ve fucked up! That’s what happened. But no need to worry, 🤗 I’m here …
As a newcomer to WordPress development, finding an easy to use yet powerful development setup is easier said than done. After doing some research online, you’re bound to run into the same tools over and over again. To name a few, there are DesktopServer, Vagrant, Local by Flywheel and any variation of the LAMP stack, …
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Plugins represent an essential and major component of any WordPress site. As of early October 2019, there are a whopping 54,775 plugins in the WordPress repository. Plenty to last you a lifetime! As a developer, you’ll eventually have to write one yourself, whether it be for a client, your company or personal usage. However, WordPress …
My favorite go-to CSS framework is Bootstrap and I’m sure it is for many others, too. However, once in a while the components of such a framework are too basic or don’t fulfill your requirements adequately. In this case, it’s best to use another more dedicated library which offers you more options. Recently, I came …
Making HTTP requests is one of the most fundamental tasks that you can perform as a web developer. As such, it’s important to know how to do them properly in the language of your choice. Having recently made the jump to PHP, it took me a while to understand how these were done. However, now …
Working with JavaScript for an extended period of time can make you take many things for granted that aren’t as easy to do in other programming languages, one of them being JSON handling. Since JSON is derived from the JavaScript language, they share much of the same syntax. Naturally, this makes them particularly well suited …
After your website has been deployed to a hosting server, it’s not uncommon to keep making changes to your website. However, it’s never a good idea to do so directly while visitors still have access to it, for obvious reasons… 😅 Instead, you’re better off working on a staging or testing site from which you …
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In recent years, page builders such as Elementor and Beaver Builder have exploded in popularity, accumulating as many as 2+ million downloads on WordPress. However, their user base doesn’t only consist of non-technical people looking to create their own website. In fact, more and more developers have begun to use page builders extensively as a …
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