Pictures are an almost indispensable part of any website. It doesn’t matter if you are a professional photographer displaying their portfolio, a local store displaying their products, or a blogger looking to make your content more dynamic, you are using photos. WordPress, as a CMS, is very aware of this and gives you out of the box options to add images to your blog post or web page. The native image gallery allows the user to upload a picture in the media library and easily place it on the page. Though you can add a gallery, the WordPress native gallery […]
Torque Toons: Google, Doc?
There’s a new email phishing scam working it’s way around the web today. If you’ve recently received a Google Doc invite that you weren’t expecting, you might want to check your Google permissions. Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
How to Optimize Local Development in 2017
Making changes to your site can be risky. You might break a functionality that would deter potential readers or customers. Every developer should take steps to make sure all changes can be tested before going live, and local development tools are an easy way to do that. Using local development tools will save you a lot of headaches down the road. Setting up a local server with the right tools is quite important and should be taken into account. Production Server vs. Local Server If you’ve been into theme or plugin development, then I’m sure you’ll be familiar these two […]
‘Developing an App Using the REST API and WordPress’ Now Available [Free Ebook]
The REST API is shaping the future of WordPress. It’s opens up a world of opportunity by allowing users to leverage the superior content management capabilities of WordPress on the back-end to power a non-WordPress frontend, resulting in more dynamic web experiences. Sites like Wired, The New York Times, and WordPress.com are already putting it to yes. For example, Wired used it to create a beta version of the site without migrating any information, and Washington State University used it to manage 1083 sites on one installation of WordPress. It’s widely-known that the REST API will truly help shape the future of WordPress, but the […]
Using WordPress As The CMS For Laravel Apps
Many developers today are buzzing about how they use the WordPress REST API in conjunction with a JavaScript framework. While that process does work well, I’ve been exploring how to correlate the REST API to a PHP MVC framework, specifically Laravel. In this article, I will highlight a few different ways to integrate the WordPress REST API into Laravel. I recently built a web application to serve helpful tips and links into my WordPress plugin Caldera Forms. Most of the content it sends exists in WordPress so I thought about creating a plugin that would run on the Caldera Forms […]

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