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December 14, 2021 — To be able to modify headers in a testing environment is a great thing to have. It allows control over your application as one can bypass authentication, set cookies, and so on. In this article, Nafees Nehar explores some methods which allow modification of headers in an automation testing setup. Read more…

February 11, 2020 — Appointment and event booking can be a time-consuming and tedious task. Business owners don’t want to deal with it and their assistants aren’t always the most effective way to capture or handle this information. Web designers, on the other hand, can help. By using the Amelia booking plugin for WordPress, you can create booking widgets that collect more appointments (and revenue) for your clients. Read more…

January 23, 2020 — WordPress Multisite allows you to run multiple websites on your server using the same WordPress installation. From setting up Wordpress Multisite to optimizing its various features, with this article, Manish Dudharejia will help you understand every facet of this unique WordPress tool. Read on to find out more. Read more…

November 28, 2019 — Setting-up a CMS-agnostic architecture for our application can be a painful endeavor. Making our code CMS-agnostic, as much as possible, enables us to easily port our application to another CMS if the need arises. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will show you how to abstract a WordPress application, making its code readily available for other frameworks or CMSs. Read more…

November 18, 2019 — Making our code CMS as agnostic as possible enables us to easily port our application to another CMS if the need arises. Since these CMSs and frameworks (WordPress, Drupal, Laravel) all run on PHP, making their PHP code re-usable too will make it easier to run our components on all these different platforms. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will show you how code abstraction works, why it is a good idea, and the key concepts to achieve it. Read more…

November 7, 2019 — Gutenberg is reinventing the experience of creating content in WordPress, granting it new powers to create, edit and manage our content. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will shine some light on these upgraded capabilities, exploring the new tools at our disposition and presenting several new ones to be released sometime in the future. Let’s see what these new powers are! Read more…

October 28, 2019 — The term COPE (“Create Once, Publish Everywhere”) is a methodology for publishing our content to different outputs (website, AMP site, email, apps, and so on) by having a single source of truth for all of them. Concerning WordPress, even though it has always shined as a Content Management System, implementing the COPE strategy has historically proved to be a challenge. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will explore how to implement COPE using WordPress. Read more…

October 15, 2019 — As a web designer, you’re probably all too familiar with feast or famine. Or with the dreaded scope creep that robs you of the profits you were so looking forward to pocketing. But that’s what happens when your ability to make money rides on how many hours you can work. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a steady flow of money coming in at all times? In this post, Suzanne Scacca is going to look at how adding WordPress maintenance services might provide that solution. Read more…

February 12, 2019 — Did you know that the average website is offline for 3 hours per month due to web hosting downtime? This case study by HostingFacts compares 32 web hosting services and their average uptime in 2018. To run this series of tests, John Stevens and his team have signed up for all of the 32 web hosting providers as a regular user, using the cheapest plan available. After that, they set up a basic WordPress website and start monitoring them with Pingdom.com. Their uptime check interval was set to 1 minute, which means all of the sites are scanned every minute to get the most accurate statistics. Read more…

January 15, 2019 — Climate change may not seem like an issue that should concern web developers, but the truth is that our work does have a carbon footprint, and it’s about time we started to think about that. As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. Many efforts are afoot to improve the situation on the web. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Read more…