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Why You Should Write Meaningful WordPress Meta Keys

If you’re someone who’s building solutions with WordPress regardless of if they are themes, plugins, or applications, then odds are you’ve had to deal with saving some type of information to the database. Granted, anytime you create a post, a page, or anything that stores data, you’re entering information into the database. But that’s not what […]

Optimizing WordPress on Media Temple DV

Though it’s typically applied to software, I tend to apply the YAGNI mentality to other things, as well. That is to say that I’d rather wait and upgrade when I need something rather than pay for something that I may never need. Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, I outgrew my current host and […]

Making Remote Requests with wp_remote_get

When it comes to working with remote requests on the server side, there are usually two solutions that I end up seeing. In fact, there are two solutions that I’ve typically ended up using: file_get_contents cURL Both of these functions generally work well; however, in our experience with Standard, we’ve had less than stellar experience especially […]

Dynamically Creating Anchor Attributes

I’m much more of a fan of letting elements and languages serve their purpose as much as possible so having JavaScript redirect the page rather than an anchor felt odd. So rather than manipulate the window object, I setup the anchor, gave it an empty href attribute, and an ID so I could easily access it.

Local Variables with JavaScript’s Replace

I was working on a piece of client-side code that needed to encode some data before invoking an Ajax request. Next, it needed to decode the response data. While doing this, I experienced a nuance in JavaScript’s replace() function that required a little bit of effort in order for it to work.

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