The Motivation: Why Build Another Crypto Plugin? When building a portfolio project, the “what” is often less important than the “how”. I decided building a WordPress plugin with modern architecture and I chose to build a Multi-Crypto Price Converter not because the market lacked one, but because it provided the perfect sandbox to demonstrate and […]
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Building a custom settings page in WordPress using React, I faced the situation where I wanted to update meta fields of multiple posts at once. I want to share the approach I used with the WordPress REST API. The WordPress REST API has a framework for making a series of REST API calls at once.
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The most common ways to show images in a website are using the HTML tags <img> and <picture> or using the CSS property background-image. There are attributes in the HTML tags to show different images based on the browser viewport. Or you can use media queries to show different images with background-image. You could find
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When you are designing the schema of the database for your project and you need to store dates and times, then the question about what data type to use appears. Recently, I started a project to build a REST API and I used timestamps, a total mistake. Later, I was applying to a job and
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There are several resource about running PHPUnit tests in a WordPress plugin with Docker. Here I want to share how I do it. You can find the configuration files in Github. I explain how to create the development instance in 5 steps: The folder structure Build a docker image to host the WordPress site Configure
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I have found test-driven development(TDD) a very interesting development methodology. Just recently I have been applying this in the development of a WordPress plugin. One of the issues during the development was wasting time launching tests manually after making changes to the code. You don’t know what you could do and achieve in those few
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Recently I was working in the development of a WordPress plugin and I didn’t find an easy way to see the error logs in WordPress with Docker. I started to read and learn about Docker some few time ago. I created a WordPress development instance using the official Docker image for WordPress in Docker Hub.
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