MySQL to Find/Select WordPress Users with Administrator Capabilities
A simple post with a MySQL query to find user account with Administrator access for WordPress database.
Development
What Is Involved in Delivering a Quality WordPress Site
It’s a good thing to understand what is involved in delivering a quality WordPress site from start to finish. Being on the front line of project communications it never ceases to amaze me when a prospect thinks the tasks that … Read More
WordPress Engineering Best Practices Guide by 10up
10up is very well regarded WordPress development firm that does a great job of giving back to the WordPress community. 10up has a living Engineering Best Practices document that is a great resource for advanced developers.
Jason Cohen of WP Engine on What 100% Uptime Means
There’s an older blog post (circa 2013) by WP Engine founder Jason Cohen titled Do You Have 100% Uptime? which discusses the challenges (technical and cost) of what 100% web services / web site uptime really means.
How StoryCorps uses WordPress REST API to build its storytelling Apps and Website
Case Study from Post Status highlighting how StoryCorps uses WordPress and the REST API to build its powerful story telling app and companion website.
Jack Lenox on Building Themes with the WP REST API and ReactJS
This past March at WordCamp London Jack Lenox an Automattician presented on building WordPress Themes using WP REST API and ReactJS.
Disable Individual Plugin Update Notification in WordPress
You can disable a WordPress plugin update notification/nag with a simple function added to your theme’s functions.php file.
CartStack Tracking Scripts Hooks for WooCommerce Themes
Below are a few WordPress action hooks that you can use in your theme’s functions.php file to insert CartStack tracking code into your WooCommerce store.
301 vs. 404
Wondering what’s the difference between 301 vs. 404 redirects? Are you confused about when you should use a 301 redirect vs. a 404 redirect? Below is a short and helpful guide that will help you navigate between the two. Differences … Read More
Four Free Options for Adding Contact Forms to your Website
Let’s say you have a static website hosted on something like Github Pages. I have one at [email protected]. I am pointing my domain edreckers.com to it via CNAME. These are static HTML sites and I needed to place a contact … Read More