wordpress WordCamp Europe 2017 - the first hour Okay, I’m going to be that person who highlights all my grievances. There will be tons of articles about how awesome everything was, so you can read those. That said here are
advanced Why is the list of log handlers in WooCommerce an array? This is going to be as much a help for me, as, I hope, it will be for you. So WooCommerce 2.7 3.0.0 introduced a new way to handle logs,
meetup Scaling WooCommerce talk at WooCommerce London on 23rd May 2016 Let me start by expressing my shock: Slideshare is owned by LinkedIn Slideshare has no idea what to do with keynote files Hence this blog post. You can grab my slides by clicking
wordpress Why disabling emails is harder in WordPress than you thought? Aww yeah, my first clickbaity title! Anyways, let’s get down to business. Here’s the initial setup so you know why the following things will be annoying: You have an eCommerce website.
performance How I improved a query for our plugin by several orders of magnitude This is going to be super developer heavy. 99% of the article is going to be about SQL, so don’t really expect PHP or javascript things. Background We’ve been getting support
wordpress Using phpcs with WordPress on OSX with MAMP Here’s the problem I needed to solve: We work on WordPress projects. We want to adhere to a single source of truth when it comes to coding standards when coding themes and
wordpress Transactional email providers I'm directly responsible for the Direct email sending in Ghost's core, which means that instead of the server trying to figure out whether there's sendmail installed and using that, it will just hurl
software svn and case-insensitive file systems tl;dr version svn rm ^/path/to/file -m "removing duplicate version" Explanation There's a plugin for WordPress that I help maintain. Along the way something decided that the readme.txt
software Sane PCRE URL Regex for PHP So it turns out that there are some "oddities" in the spec and URLs that don't seem like URLs are actually URLs, and thus PHP's filter_var lets them pass. TLDs
software Is Ghost hard to install? I guess in the developer world I could consider myself as a dual-wielding character. I do WordPress websites at my dayjob to the point where I'm uncovering bugs in core (not to mention
wordpress What happens on wp_insert_post()? This question came up in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group in the form of whether we should be using direct database inserts when converting non-WP data to WP data, or use the APIs.