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Dilshan is a blogger and self-taught web developer currently based in Vienna, Austria. He is always on the lookout for new opportunities and can be reached through his website or Chunk Bytes.
Keep things simple, stupid! The motto of every developer, I hope… This can also be applied to the use of external libraries, which offer a plethora of awesome features and make our developer hearts go fuzzy. Yet, more often than…
Content Management Systems… people like to use them. And not just a few people, apparently almost half of all sites use them! Furthermore, alongside the traditional CMS, a new concept called Headless CMS has emerged as well. It’s become quite…
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…
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 Unfortunately, its development workflow feels quite outdated and clunky when compared to PHP Laravel and many front-end…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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……
