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 […]
How To Customize The WordPress WYSIWYG Editor
The WordPress editor is the central work hub for content creation. Once you have your site up and running, you’ll probably spend about 80% of your time there. If you think about it, that’s pretty impressive. One part of your website that lets you take care of 80% of your work? Sounds like a powerful tool. The WordPress editor is something we take for granted. Its look, behavior, the even its formatting options are so intuitive that even newbies will quickly become familiar with it. This familiarity, however, is somewhat artificial. Just like the rest of the platform, you can customize […]
Everything You Need To Know About Semantic SEO
The Semantic Web is here. Those that are taking advantage of Semantic Technologies to build a Semantic SEO strategy are benefiting from staggering results. From a research paper put together with the team at WordLift, presented at SEMANTiCS 2017, we documented that structured data is compelling from the digital marketing standpoint. For instance, on the analysis of the design-focused website freeyork.org, after three months of using structured data on their WordPress website we saw the following improvements: +12.13% new users +18.47% increase in organic traffic +2.4 times increase in page views +13.75% of sessions duration In other words, many still […]
Press This: CI/CD in WordPress is Overlooked and How to Change that With Maciek Palmowski
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, or […]
Press This Podcast: November 2020 Word Around the Campfire
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter […]
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