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One of the biggest differences between code written by novice developers and more advanced developers is that experienced developers tend to pay a lot more attention towards sanitizing and validating inputs, and late escaping outputs. Novice developers, on the other hand, tend to overlook these practices. I know I did. I didn’t even know what sanitization, validation, or escaping were. And, while these steps may not seem exciting, they are essential for preventing errors and security exploits on the sites that are running your code. In this article, I will discuss the basics of sanitizing and validating inputs in the context of […]

When building a WordPress website, you probably already have a laundry list of things that need to be done. Layout optimization, social icons, Google Analytics, SEO settings — to name just a few. Not to mention, content creation when the site has gone online. Probably the last thing you want is to add more to the list. However, here is an important one, web accessibility. What’s that you ask? Making your site accessible means setting it up in a way that anyone can use it, regardless of limitations like visual, aural, or other cognitive impairment, learning disabilities, limited movement, speech disabilities, […]

PHP executes code in series, which means one thing is done after another. This can be problematic when you need to do a lot of processing in one session or if you are relying on calls to external APIs. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use asynchronous PHP in WordPress to address this issue. It isn’t uncommon for a server to be configured with a 30-second timeout limit for each request, which puts a hard cap on the amount of time each session has to do its work. Of course, if that processing is required in […]

Don’t we all want to be on Google’s first page? Maybe even the first place? There probably isn’t a website owner out there who doesn’t dream of it. After all, you invested a lot of time and energy to create the best possible website. Why wouldn’t you want your effort to be rewarded? However, you know what’s the first step to getting to Google’s pole position? Getting onto Google at all. Sometimes websites don’t even make it that far. In the online universe, that’s nothing short of a disaster. If you are not picked up by search engines, your website […]