JavaScript has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. There’s a growing need for WordPress developers to “learn JavaScript deeply.” However, making the switch from PHP can seem overwhelming at first glance. In our opinion, even if PHP is your only programming language, you should find the switch to JavaScript comfortable enough to begin hacking away at a few scripts in no time. Once you understand how the basic building blocks of JavaScript are put together, you’ll have a solid grounding that will enable you to explore the more complex aspects of the language. In this […]
Solving the Five Most Frequent WordPress Issues
WordPress is by far one of the most popular content management systems due to its flexibility and simplicity of use. In fact, it now powers over 30 percent of the web. However, like any other platform, it can have its problems. Here are the five biggest issues users deal with and how to solve them. White Screen of Death The “White Screen of Death,” or WSOD, as you’ve probably guessed, is a reference to the infamous Blue Screen of Death occurring in Windows. Contrary to its Windows analog, which is just as irritating, the WSOD WordPress error results in a […]
How Voice Search Will Impact SEO in the Future
In the world of search, the voice is an emerging trend and of course, something that should we should keep an eye on. Google algorithms change once or twice in a day. But rarely do we experience major ranking fluctuations in it. Those are actually the updates marketers are concerned about. We’re going to get on the impact voice search will have on SEO and why you should pay attention to the trend. Impact on SEO If voice search is the future, will it have an effect on SEO? The answer to this is yes. When someone searches for something, […]
Torque Toons: WordCamp for Procrastinators
Speaking of WordCamps, I’ll be at WordCamp for Publishers next week in Chicago. I’ll be there shooting videos and handing out WordPress themed comics. I hope to see you there! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 7: Refactoring Is An Opportunity To Adopt Test-Driven Development
So far in this series on writing WordPress plugins using object-oriented PHP, I’ve focused mainly on testing. This is because a key advantage of object-oriented PHP is that it can be written in a way that is both highly testable and highly reusable. Just using classes doesn’t magically give us this We’ve also not written any code that does something practically useful. The idea is to show how to customize search via the WordPress REST API. The example plugin, at the point where I’ve left off just returns an array of WP_Posts. But, the public API for the system is […]

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