Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Earlier this year, I talked about the move from Pressware to WebDevStudios but I didn’t go into much detail. However, last week, I had the ability to do a deep dive into what it’s like to work to work with an agency again.
But it’s more than just work.
Continue readingI’m one of those types who uses the 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as my primary DNS servers.
But one problem that comes with using these as my main DNS servers (and maybe others, I don’t know as I’ve not tried them) is that when I’m using cURL to make requests to a third-party server, it will often result in an a 404.
Luckily, there’s an easy fix.
Continue readingWhen I started the podcast at the beginning of the year, I’d planned to do it for at least a year. But some seriously good things have come up since January – namely that our family is growing 🙂 – and I’m all for priorities.
Right now, my big focus is on my family, friends, and work (which includes blogging). So, to that end, I’m putting the podcast on an indefinite hiatus. Normally, that’s a polite way of saying “I don’t think I’ll be doing this again.”
That’s not true in this case, though.
Instead, it’s something that I’ll eventually come back to doing once the new normal has set. With that, though, I decided to try to make this episode longer than the previous episode.
Continue readingIn the previous two posts, I’ve talked about the basics of caching and how caching works in WordPress, at least to a degree.
But remember that this series was motivated by an email from someone who thought that I could do a better job of explaining how transients and caching work in WordPress and why it’s important to understand how everything works in tandem with each other.
So in this post, I’m aiming to bring it all together and talk about how the Transients API works in conjunction with MySQL, why it’s important to understand the relationship, and how to handle this moving forward.
Continue readingIn the previous post, I shared a basic primer for how database-backed applications – specifically WordPress – work without caching.
And before we talk about how basic caching works in WordPress, namely with the Transients API, it’s important to discuss the basic principles of caching. This includes why we do it, its benefits, and how it works.
Then we’ll get into how we can take advantage of basic facilities in WordPress to actually do this.
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