Whether you’re a developer or an admin overseeing multiple WordPress sites, I’m sure you’ve thought to yourself: “I wish I could do this faster.” From creating a fresh install for testing to updating the same plugin on multiple sites, there are so many tasks you’ll find yourself doing over and over again. WP-CLI is the answer to your woes and …
Advanced WordPress Development: Using Gulp to Streamline Your Workflow
No matter what languages you’ve used in the past to development websites, you’ve no doubt had to complete menial, monotonous tasks – image optimization, JavaScript minification, concatenation, compiling supersets like SCSS and CoffeeScript to their native counterparts, creating the final build… just to name a few. Fortunately, build scripts such as Gulp and Grunt can take care of these rather …
Advanced WordPress Development: Using the Command Line
While mention of the command line strikes fear into the hearts of many developers, the truth is that it is an easy to use and immensely helpful tool for development. Once you understand how it works, the command line is straightforward to use and will streamline how you work, saving you a bunch of time. This is the fourth post …
Advanced WordPress Development: Working With Transients
Transients are a super-handy type of WordPress caching that is often sorely underutilized. But what are they exactly? Simply put, a transient is a bit of data you can store with an expiration date. This may not seem like much, but transients allow you to create more efficient systems in WordPress that clean up after themselves. This is the third …