Getting emails through your WordPress site is important. Whether someone is informing you there’s something wrong with your products, or just dropping by to say you’re doing a great job, you need to make sure you receive those emails.
Too often, our tests for if emails work on a WordPress site or in a WordPress plugin involve filling out a form,
Since the WordPress REST API was first proposed, we’ve talked a lot about how it will be involved in the future of wp-admin. Gutenberg, the new WordPress UI system that will be used for the new post editor in WordPress 5.0 is the first example we have of the REST API being used to communicate data between the server and a JavaScript-driven interface.
So you’ve trained yourself as a web engineer, and now want to build a blazing fast online shop for your customers. The product list should appear in an instant, and searching should waste no more than a split second either. Is that the stuff of daydreams?
Not anymore. Well, at least it’s nothing that can’t be achieved with the combination of WordPress’ REST API and React,
Whenever you’re working with third-party APIs, and you’re doing so in an asynchronous nature, there is always the chance that whatever it is you’re requesting is going to return a un-desirable result. Perhaps it’s an error code, perhaps it’s a warning, or maybe it’s a simple message saying something like “We’re still processing your request on our…
If you have ever wanted to send a form without reloading the page, provide a look-ahead search function that prompts the user with suggestions as they type, or auto-save documents, then what you need is AJAX (also known as XHR). A behind-the-scenes request is sent to the server, and returning data to your form. Whenever you see a loader animation after you have made some action on the page,
Is your website accessible to those with a disability?
Approximately 56.7 million Americans have a disability. Unfortunately, the majority of websites, even newly built ones, do not meet accessibility standards. If you haven’t considered accessibility until now, your site most likely has barriers that make it difficult for anyone with a disability to view and engage with the website.
One thing that makes working with PHP simple is that it is serial — each line of code is executed in order. This is also a limitation when we need to build a program that interacts with multiple APIs or other services since HTTP requests take time and can block page rendering.
I discussed this problem in my article on combining data from multiple REST API endpoints using PHP.
The more you work with WordPress, especially if you employ tools like Composer and the like, the more you’re likely going to find certain libraries, tools, and similar things that form the foundation of projects on which you work. Sometimes you may find them when looking through other people’s code, maybe you’ll find them when browsing GitHub,
Domain Authority (DA) is a strong ranking factor with search engines, but many site owners don’t take the time to set themselves apart as industry leaders and increase their own DA. As such, you may not be ranking as highly as you could be, which could impact traffic, income, and more.
Creating a custom knowledge base with WordPress is a good way to increase your DA.
In this article, the first in a series, I will introduce the concept of a container and show you how to build and implement a very simple, but limited container. This article illustrates the concept using a singleton, which is not optimal but is simple.
Note, this example code will start with using a singleton.
