Tag: wordpress
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The unnecessary “Pluginophobia” in WordPress
Once a year, a redundant topic reappears on Twitter within the WordPress Community, which sparks a weird fear of using too many plugins as add-ons. You will hear people trying to joke about the number of plugins some websites have. Or they will post memes about site makers who look into performance improvements after they’ve…
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A modern web stack for WordPress plugins or themes in 2024.
I think the deepest way of learning something is by attempting to write about it or to teach others and since I was out-of-date with this subject I’ve decided to do a freshup about what a WordPress plugin or theme should contain in its development repository.
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My Journey at WordCamp Europe 2017
My fellows from Pixelgrade and I attended WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, and I must admit it was a blast. Again. Luckily, I haven’t lost anything this year. Yaaay! This was my first time in Paris, but visiting a vastly cultural city didn’t overcome my expectations as the event itself did. I admit that I’m not…
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Add theme suggestions for plugins for real
This article is about my thoughts on different scenarios regarding the moment when a WordPress theme adds plugin suggestions in a clear and useful way. I think the whole WordPress community raises a strong need for a visible and clear relationship between plugins and themes. I came across situations when a theme adds a style for a certain plugin, but…
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Automated Testing, what can they bring
Please let me set your expectations from scratch. I really want to highlight the fact that I’m NOT an Automated Testing Guru, neither a testing-driven developer. I wrote a few tests in my “coding” life, and half of them I’ve already deleted because I’m way too embarrassed to showcase them. However, I see the added…
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1Click update language pot files with phpStorm
Let me provide you a short context about this article’s purpose. In few words, what I’d like to do is to walk-you-through the process of updating language post files in faster and automated way. But hey! not fully automated, ok? You will need to click some buttons, but that’s a piece of cake.
