For those who are comfortable with WP-CLI but haven’t yet memorised all the commands here are some of the more common ones I use when developing client sites. The object here is to save time and to avoid do repetitive (and unexciting) tasks in wp-admin. If you aren’t comfortable with WP-CLI and would like to …Continue reading
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Unix Command Cheatsheet
This is a conglomeration of several online cheatsheets, the origins of which are noted in the resources section below. It also includes my own notes, any of this is open for discussion. Please feel free to correct any wrong information or to include any which are vital but may have been overlooked.
Responsive Images to be merged into WordPress 4.4
Edit: WordPress 4.4 is here! Update your WordPress installation to experience Responsive Images on your site. What are Responsive Images? If you’ve somehow missed all the excitement about browsers supporting responsive images you can read about it here. In short it is an HTML5 specification that allows the browser to determine which sized image to …Continue reading
Price Appropriate WordPress Hosting Solutions
Sites built using WordPress now account for over twenty percent of all sites on the Internet and WordPress hosting has become a profitable business for the many involved. Thanks to my experiences working with and fixing all sorts of sites on all sorts of hosting platforms I unfortunately have a very long list of hosts …Continue reading
Using the Php Storm Code Sniffer for WordPress
Although I’ve been using Php Storm for a while now I am only just discovering some of the benefits of the IDE. One of these is to be able to apply coding standards to projects where they are lacking. Although there is documentation on the Php Storm site, it doesn’t directly apply to WordPress and …Continue reading
WordCamp Europe 2015 in Review- Day Two
There was much anticipation about the schedule for the second day of the conference and it started off with a bang. While some people found day one a bit lacking on the technical front they wouldn’t have felt so today. While the first day offered a lot of theory, the second was much more practical. …Continue reading
WordCamp Europe 2015 in Review- Day One
This is the third year of WordCamp Europe and an event that began with fairly humble beginnings in Leiden has now transformed into something that could eventually rival the bigger WordCamps like Miami and San Francisco. WordCamp Europe was held in Seville Spain at the Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento, a five star venue that provided WordCampers …Continue reading
Translation Basics for WPML- Translating Post and Page Content
This article addresses basics of using WPML for translating a site into multiple languages and is geared towards translators. This article has several parts and in this first part we will be addressing the dynamic content for Posts and Pages. What is WMPL? Very Simply, WPML (WordPress Multi Language) is a plugin for a WordPress …Continue reading
Responsive (and Responsable) Per-page Background Images with WordPress
Full-page Background Images can do a lot to spice up the design of a somewhat minimalist site without detracting from the content being displayed. The problem is that in order for them to look reasonably crisp and professional they are often quite large. There are and should be several precautions when adding any large image …Continue reading
Moving from MAMP to Vagrant for WordPress
Why Vagrant? Over the years I have been a faithful user of MAMP, WAMP, and even XXAMP. As a freelancer, I don’t have much occasion to share my development environment and most of my clients have similar environments- shared servers in the low to mid range using a LAMP stack. I almost always have a …Continue reading