WordPress is not my primary development environment. I only go in when I need certain functionality or design fixes for my own site, and by far the most painful part is getting set up. (Maybe I’m just a N00b). The biggest problem I had with my former development environments was not being able to access …
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In this post we’ll learn how to setup a basic local PHP development environment in Docker. We’ll be using docker-compose and Dockerfile to achieve this. We’ll use PHP, Apache, and Mysql. Setting up a comprehensive environment with things like task runners, composer, etc… will come in later tutorials. If you just want the quick and …
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Hey ya. In this article we’re going to set you up with a basic plugin environment to get you going in WordPress Plugin development, including Gutenberg. The goal of this article is to cover the following: Setup a basic plugin using Gutenberg Use jQuery on the front end for a block Use javascript files on …
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Changing your permalinks is an important thing to do early on in your website creation. You don’t want people having to visit a page that looks like yoursite.com/12/20/2019/post495. First of all, it’s gross, second, nobody knows what the post is about, and it’s one less indicator to explain to the search engines what the post …
Posts and pages are the foundation of a WordPress website, and one of the first things a new WordPress user will learn how to use. In this post we’re going to talk about the differences between posts and pages, and how to set them up on your site. Posts vs Pages. What’s the difference? a …
One of the first things a new WordPress user wants to do is setup their homepage and their blog. This post will show you how to do it. Keep in mind there are more advanced strategies to design and customize these pages that will be covered later. Click “Settings” -> “Reading” in your admin area …
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WordPress will sometimes do some funny business with the content on your site. Maybe it likes to reformat your table content or adjust your text to something that you didn’t do. Disabling the visual editor can help if you have any customization that breaks because of the visual editor. Luckily it’s so easy to do …
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One of the quickest ways to make your WordPress website more secure is to change the “login” and “admin” pages. WP powers tens of millions of websites across the world, and they all have the same default login page: “wp-admin” and “wp-login.php” which looks like yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php. So hackers will visit your website and see if …
Reusable blocks are a MUST when it comes to growing a business and getting the most out of your website. The WordPress Gutenberg editor makes it easy. What are Reusable blocks and when should I use them? Reusable blocks are reusable ;-). So imagine you’re building an Email list. You want to build your list …
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In this post I’m going to show you how to setup a development environment that allows you to interact with the source code while you develop Gutenberg blocks. Documentation is not always good so the source code really helps. We can use wp-scripts to quickly spin up a local WordPress development environment using Docker. Here’s …
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