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WordPress Blogs You Follow Regularly…?

August 28, 2017 / Tom

This weekend, I got a message from a fellow WordPress-developer whom I highly respect. In the note, Mario asked:

I was curious, do you follow other WP bloggers or have a go-to list for people still actively writing?

Which is a good question because, to be honest, there aren’t that many people I know in WordPress who blog regularly.

WordPress Blogs You Follow Regularly (If Any)

This isn’t to say there aren’t a lot of people in WordPress who are active on Twitter or actively sharing their stuff on other channels like GitHub, Slack, newsletters, etc., but there aren’t many people who are actively writing on their blogs.

And maybe it’s weird, maybe it’s not, but I’d assume that those involved in WordPress development of some sort would occasionally write on some place on the web.

Adjusting the First PhpStorm Breakpoint

August 25, 2017 / Tom

Often, there are little idiosyncrasies that come with learning anything new. Thus, an IDE is no different.

And when it comes to learning a new IDE and how to use a debugger with it, there can often be small things that need to be adjusted or configured so that they help streamline your development.

For me, it comes with some of the default behavior of Xdebug. That is, if you’ve ever installed a new IDE and set it up to use Xdebug, you’ve likely experienced the behavior of having it start on the very first line of your web server or your application.

And this can be an annoying albeit preventable setting. If you’re using PhpStorm, here’s an easy way to fix it.

Members Only: How It’s Going to Work

August 24, 2017 / Tom

A few weeks ago, I disabled comments (and talked about it a little bit) in preparation for the upcoming re-design and membership feature (or features?) of what I hope to accomplish with the site.

Arguably the best way to setup a Members Only site in WordPress.

Though it’s still a little bit of time before September (which is when I’m planning to launch it all), I thought it might be a good idea to go ahead and cover how the site will function, what it’ll include for members only, what it’ll include for everyone and all of that fun stuff.

Fix Valet, WordPress, Ajax, Bad Gateway

August 23, 2017 / Tom

Some time ago, I went back to using Valet for local development, and I’ve been happy with it since. Up until sometime last week, I’d yet to run into any problems.

Fix Valet, WordPress, Ajax, Bad Gateway: Valet

But when working on a WordPress plugin that imports data using admin-ajax, I kept getting a curious message in the console no matter how large or small the data was. Specifically, I was getting an error about “502 (Bad Gateway).”

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from an inbound server it accessed while attempting to fulfill the request.

And if you try to diagnose it based on that definition, you won’t get very far. It’s not that it’s wrong, but it’s that you need to modify your server configuration.

Luckily, it’s easy. Or it’s likely easy.

WordPress-Focused Continuous Integration with CircleCI

August 22, 2017 / Tom

Writing about continuous integration or continuous deployments seems a little funny to me given that I’ve done this before and given that I know a lot of developers already use this as part of their day-to-day.

But I also know that there are a lot of hobbyists, beginners, and those who are just starting out who are looking for ways to make sure they are setting up solid practices for their work.

For what it’s worth, it wasn’t until I started working with a few more people that we began to incorporate a wider set of tools in our deployment process.

And that’s the purpose of this post.

That is:

introduce the whole idea behind WordPress-focused continuous integration,
introducing CircleCI,
getting ready to chat more about it.

With that said, here’s the run down on all of the above.