DevTips – How to Scale and Crop Images for WordPress
The loading speed of our website is a key factor when it comes to positioning well in search engines. Save a few tenths of a second when loading a website…
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DevTips – How to Stop WordPress From Guessing URLs
The other day I was working on one of my projects and I encountered an unexpected behavior: if you write the URL of a page in a WordPress site incorrectly,…
DevTips – How to Add a New Sidebar in WordPress
The other day I was reading a fashion post because its headline was really interesting: “The New Size Is Custom: How Retailers Are Using Personalization To Win Customer Loyalty“. Apparently,…
DevTips – How to Limit Image Size in WordPress Media Library
If there’s one thing that all websites have in common is the fact that images take most of your bandwidth. Well, not exactly—in websites like YouTube videos do ? and…
DevTips – Native Drag & Drop with HTML5
Native solutions are the best! Just a few weeks ago we were talking about vanilla JavaScript, remember? Why would you use a heavy third-party library when you can achieve the…
DevTips – How to Intercept Remote JavaScript Files and Replace Them with Local Versions
Translated by Núria Adell. I won’t get tired of repeating this. The world of web development is a jungle where no matter how experienced you are, any specimen can mess…
DevTips – Namespaces in PHP
About a year ago WordPress decided to update the required minimum PHP version, from 5.2 (used since 2010) to something more up-to-date. In fact, Today the minimum version of PHP…
DevTips – Scripts to Automate WordPress Plugin Development
A couple of weeks ago I read an article that I found extremely amusing (although it’s a couple of years old already): a programmer had written several scripts to automate…
DevTips – Customize your WordPress Site with a Plugin (and Forget About functions.php)
Customizing WordPress is super easy. On the one hand, there’s a huge ecosystem of plugins that will transform your website and add new and awesome functionalities. On the other hand,…
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…example, consider this blog post: DevTips – How to Stop WordPress From Guessing URLs. This is a fairly short post, with less than 400 words, that offers a quick solution…