It’s easy to rattle off a bunch of ways you can improve the performance of your website: minify your CSS & JSoptimize your imagescache the crap out of ituse a CDNetc.Those are all important, but there’s also a more modern, less-discussed approach that can almost immediately earn you some serious performance
Read ItIf 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 responsible for the main query on any given page or post,
Read ItSqueezing 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, leveraging resource hints is a modern approach that can yield some significant ROI – with preloading is a particularly impactful place
Read ItIf 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 always choose?A plugin.Why? The list of reasons is longer than this, but here
Read ItWhen I started in development, beginning a new project often felt like drowning and then being asked to write some functioning JavaScript. At the time, all I needed to do was perform some DOM stuff — make an element disappear on a click, add some classes, or animate a dropdown.
Read ItWhen 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 third-party plugin introduces, or for some other reason, you might feel called to
Read ItA while back, 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, the most versatile JavaScript animated typing utility on the planet. The process was
Read ItSecurely 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: https: //your-site.com?email=booger%40email.comIn fact, Google has some clear policies explicitly prohibiting certain information from being
Read ItIf 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 the reality of this happening sometimes.When I meet scenarios like this, by default, I
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