Coding
Coding and code related posts. Thoughts on Wordpress, Magento and coding in general.
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Building a terms list block for WordPress
I wrote a terms list block for WordPress. Here’s what I learned.
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Adding unit tests to your WordPress plugin using wp-env
Are you considering adding unit tests to your WordPress plugin? Here’s how to do this easily using wp-env.
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Learnings While Scaling WooCommerce
WooCommerce has, at the time of writing, passed over 6 million downloads (and several million active installations) on WordPress.org. What many aren’t aware of is, WooCommerce reached the 5 million download mark with only 3 engineers officially working full time on the project (while working on several other projects as well). Throughout this process, we…
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Set a custom rewrite rule for author archives in WordPress
In the comments of my post on custom rewrite rules in WordPress, I received a query regarding creating author profile URLs using a rewrite convention of “/profile“. The WordPress author archives are a great way to create profiles for each author on your WordPress-powered website (in fact, it’s done for you by default). The author…
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Test your knowledge of WordPress with “The WordPress Test”
Smarterer has since been acquired, and the free WordPress test retired. So… you think you know WordPress, huh? 😉 Well, why not test your skills and see where you rank on the world’s stage? Presenting… the WordPress test! I blogged the other day about using Smarterer and Code School for online education. As a starting…
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One-up your web development skills for free with these online services
As a developer in an industry where trends and languages grow and evolve at pace, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the latest happenings. Thus, developers tend to specialise in certain languages or platforms which they watch. For example, while I keep tabs on developments within the PHP and WordPress communities, and…