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Speaking at WordCamp Atlanta 2016

March 18, 2016 / Tom

This weekend, I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta 2016. If you’re in town for the conference, then let’s aim to say hey or to hang out a bit at the conference.

WordCamp Atlanta 2016

There are a lot of great speakers and a lot of great sessions from which you get to choose. And, if you’re a beginner, don’t forget to check out the beginner’s workshop that will be later today (at the time of this writing).

This year, I’ll be talking on Sunday at 11:00 am so if you have a chance to fit it into your schedule, then I hope to see you there.

Specifically, I’ll be talking through a few things that aim to give people a primer on professional WordPress development practices.

Escaping Strings For WordPress Database Queries

March 15, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Escaping strings for WordPress is something that developers should be doing at any place in which the user can be sending information across the wire to the database.

Core offers some nice API functions for this. But if you’re writing a raw database query using $wpdb (which is something that I recommend only when an API doesn’t offer what’s needed), then there are still options, but you may need to fall back to a native PHP function.

Case in point: mysqli_real_escape_string.

CLI: A Cheatsheet For The Command-Line

March 11, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

The CLI is one of those tools that I think every developer should know how to use even if they don’t use it consistently. After all, we have plenty of applications for taking care of tasks, right?

The thing is, from time-to-time, it’s useful. During the process of working on projects, you may be hopping back and forth between an IDE, an SSH session, S/FTP, a task runner, debugging, and so on.

Sometimes, particularly in the beginning, it’s hard to juggle all of the commands in your head.

Though I love using applications to help take care of certain tasks, I’ve never fully let the command-line go. Sometimes, it’s just faster to type out a string of commands and let them do their work rather than poke around a number of different applications.

Maybe that’s stubborn. I don’t know. But what if you’ve not used the CLI? How do you maintain a quick reference to the available commands?

The Perfect WordPress Development Stack

March 9, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

The “Perfect WordPress Development Stack” is one of those topics that comes up now and again in various blogs (and here it is again – how meta, right?), talks, tweets, and so on.

And I think it’s a good point of conversation. If you’re working with WordPress in a professional capacity, then you should have a stack that maintains some level of professionalism.

But what does that look like? It’s likely that some of you know where I’m going with us and the answer may sound like a cop-out.

It’s not, though. It’s generally what I’ve found to be true.

Deregistering WordPress Stylesheets

March 7, 2016 / Tom

Deregistering WordPress stylesheets is one of those things that we don’t always have to consider.

If you’re starting a project from scratch, then it’s usually safe to say that you’re starting a project at ground zero and have control over most of the assets that are to be enqueued in the project.

On the other hand, if you’re coming into a project at a later date or you’re working on a plugin that has to work in conjunction with another plugin that might use a shared stylesheet then you may need to deregister an existing asset to make sure everything works well together.

Speaking at WordCamp Atlanta 2016

Escaping Strings For WordPress Database Queries

CLI: A Cheatsheet For The Command-Line

The Perfect WordPress Development Stack

Deregistering WordPress Stylesheets

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