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A listing and summary of all posts that I’ve contributed to the Envato WPTuts+ blog.

Ajax in WordPress: How It Works, Building a Plugin, and More

Ajax in WordPress

A couple of months ago, I did a short series on Envato on Ajax in the WordPress Dashboard. This month, I’m continuing to talk about Ajax in WordPress and how to include it on the frontend in your themes, plugins, and other projects.

Though the Codex has two great articles on Ajax in WordPress – that is, the introduction and how to use it on the server-side – there’s not a lot of documentation for how to implement it on the front end

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Unit Testing in WordPress – A Review

Unit Testing in WordPress Review

Last month, I published two articles on Unit Testing in WordPress. Specifically, I discussed the practicality of unit testing and how it can better our projects, and I discussed the theory of unit testing to give a little bit of background and context of where it came from, why it matters, and a methodology for doing it.

In my most recent article on Unit Testing in WordPress, I provide a short quiz to help you review the material.

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Professional WordPress Development

Professional WordPress Development

Professional WordPress Development is a topic that’s something I obviously discuss quite a bit here – I believe that WordPress has matured to a point where its potential for building not only blogs, websites, or content-managed sites has grown to where it’s a viable platform for building applications.

In order to share my thoughts on this with a wider audience, I’m currently running a series on Envato that’s all about professional WordPress Development.

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