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One thing that makes working with PHP simple is that it is serial — each line of code is executed in order. This is also a limitation when we need to build a program that interacts with multiple APIs or other services since HTTP requests take time and can block page rendering. I discussed this problem in my article on combining data from multiple REST API endpoints using PHP. My best advice for avoiding this problem is using caching or JavaScript instead. One great thing about JavaScript is that there are many simple ways to do asynchronous HTTP requests, such […]

Scalable vector graphics and WordPress is a slightly complicated story. We all know that using visuals on your website is important. Images are everywhere. Be it to make your content more engaging and shareable, as portfolio images, or maybe just your site logo. Thankfully, WordPress supports many image formats for that purpose, including JPG, PNG, and GIF. However, one it doesn’t support without some coercion is scalable vector graphics (SVG). Yet, they are an image format that is growing rapidly in popularity. In this article, we want to talk about scalable vector graphics in WordPress. We will tell you what […]