Caching is fantastic and the key to making websites performant and scalable. But comments can make caching tricky because they have the opportunity to invalidate a page’s cache so often. Every time a comment is posted on a site, the page it’s ...
I wish we lived in a world where everyone used ad services like Carbon, or where decentralized opt-in monetization for websites was a common standard. But we don’t. We live in this world, where ad revenue is at the center of everything from AI ...
I love oEmbed. The fact that you can just paste a url of something into an editor and it automatically embeds is fantastic. And while Twitter embeds do look pretty good out of the box, there are a few things that you can tweak to make it a bit better.
A site specific WordPress plugin, is a plugin that is intended to be used only on a single website. Or in other words, a plugin made for a specific website. It’s a great solution for simple small changes like registering a shortcode or adding a ...
WordPress shortcodes are a handy way to extend the functionality of what’s possible within the WordPress editor that are aliased to short strings of text that look [like-this]. There are a lot of things a shortcode can be used for, but typically it ...
I do a lot of online projects, so I find myself using text editors and command line a lot. I’ve used Sublime Text for years, but a friend of mine recently suggested I try Brackets. And I must say I’ve been impressed with it so far. ...