How to Use tmux for Remote & Local Development
The tmux terminal multiplexer is often used in remote development, but it has interesting applications for local dev work as well. In this article, I’ll explain what a terminal multiplexer… Read more
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Debugging React, JavaScript, and PHP at the Same Time With PhpStorm
Ever since I discovered how to configure PhpStorm with Xdebug for debugging, it’s been my go-to solution for hunting down difficult to reproduce bugs. What I didn’t know until very… Read more
Jonathan
Mar 29, 2022
Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
In 2018 Google started advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption, by marking sites not using an SSL certificate as “not secure” in their Chrome browser. This was widely accepted as… Read more
Brad
Nov 23, 2021
PHP and cURL: How WordPress makes HTTP requests
cURL is the workhorse of the modern internet. As its tagline says, cURL is a utility piece of software used to ‘transfer data with urls‘. According to the cURL website,… Read more
Peter Tasker
Mar 24, 2021
Advanced Custom Fields: A Guide to Custom Fields and ACF Blocks
I’ve been a fan of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for a long time now. It’s used on almost every site I’ve built or worked on for the last few years.… Read more
Iain
Mar 16, 2021
How to Get MinIO and Other S3-Compatible Storage Providers to Work with WP Offload Media
WP Offload Media has a lot of filters that can be used to alter its behavior, but not a lot of people know about them, or what you could accomplish… Read more
Ian
Apr 30, 2019
WP-CLI Packages We Can’t Live Without
I think most developers would agree that WP-CLI (the self-described “command-line interface for WordPress”) is the best thing to happen to WordPress since my-hacks.php. It is my favorite way to… Read more
Jeff
Jan 23, 2018
The WordPress Developer’s Guide to ES2015 (ES6)
The WordPress developer community is currently abuzz with JavaScript talk, specifically around which JavaScript framework to use in WordPress core. Regardless of which framework is chosen, it’s clear that WordPress… Read more
Ashley