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I’m a big fan of doing my WordPress development live and using Xdebug for tracing WordPress’ execution. But, sometimes you need real-time data of what is going on with certain hooks or functions on your site. I recently discovered the app Papertrail which does just that. Though there are several, similar web apps out there, I chose Papertrail for two reasons: The first is because it has a free option. The second reason is because Scott Kingsley Clark wrote an easy-to-use API client for Papertrail as a WordPress plugin. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Papertrail to […]

As WordPress matures towards becoming a fully-fledged application framework, the tooling surrounding the platform continues to come on in leaps and bounds. Over the last three years in particular, developers have moved quickly to embrace best practices which have long since been standard in other platforms. A big part of that overall push has involved fine-tuning approaches to local development environments. We’ve covered classic approaches such as local LAMP installations and experimenting with Vagrant here on the blog before, but one solution, in particular, is gaining an increasing amount of ground – Docker. In this piece, we’ll introduce Docker as a technology, […]