It’s easy to rattle off a bunch of ways you can improve the performance of your website: minify your CSS & JS optimize your images cache the crap out of it use a CDN etc. Those are all important, but there’s also a more modern, less-discussed…
If you’ve spent 20 seconds in WordPress development, you’ve likely worked with, cursed, and fallen in love with the WP _ Query class — one of the most useful, commonly used tools in any given WordPress website or application. Aside from being…
Squeezing every last drop of performance out of your website on any platform is an always-changing, never-ending, often addictive battle. Among the several tactics you can employ in this fight, optimizing your site’s resource hints is a modern…
If you’re making modifications to the functionality of your WordPress site or application, there are generally two places where people put the code to do it. A theme’s functions.php file. A plugin. Given the choice, which option should you almost…
When I started web development, beginning a new project often felt like drowning and then being asked to write JavaScript that worked. At the time, all I needed to do was perform some DOM stuff: make an element disappear on a click, add some classes…
When you’re looking to incorporate any given feature into your WordPress application, there’s rarely a shortage of third-party plugins out there to make it happen. But sometimes, whether you’re trying to avoid the inevitable complexity an unfamiliar…
Some time ago, I wrote my first Lambda function with Firebase. Like every Lambda function tutorial on the web shows you how to do, mine processes a payment via Stripe when someone purchases a license for TypeIt , a JavaScript utility for making…
Securely handling personal information on the web is a pretty big deal, and one of the ways you do that is making sure none of it’s sent via query string in a URL. Things like this are bad: In fact, Google has some clear policies explicitly…
If you’ve been a developer for more than 7 minutes, you’ve probably felt uncomfortably pressured into doing something weird with your code, like specifically styling plain, classless, attribute-less elements. Don’t ask for the details, just accept…