🎞 Engaging video shorts with subtitles, the open source way
How I create engaging video shorts with subtitles for promoting my Android apps.
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Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love docker compose.
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Rant on why I think it’s OK to keep logging enabled in live WordPress sites.
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As a WordPress plugin developer, lately I’ve been using ChatGPT in all stages of software development. Here’s some ideas on how to leverage this tool.
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Apologies to my usual readers, but this post is not going to be technical. It’s about a dream I just had, today, Monday the 27th. In my dream, I was programming a custom SQL query for some WordPress plugin. The query was an INSERT statement, that simply passed a vector of strings into a table …
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A complete working example of an admin pointer in WordPress. Use it to display hints to new users, introducing them to your UI.
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This is not an article on how to fix timeout errors on your web server. Instead, it is an article on how NOT to go about fixing these errors. Smh…
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Use PHP output buffering in WordPress to interpolate HTML code and dynamic values in a way that’s more readable.
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Developing a WordPress theme or plugin? Learn how to use phan and phpcs to improve the quality of your WordPress PHP code.
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Render an SVG that uses the feDropShadow filter to a raster file such as PNG, using a PHP script.
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A script to scrape and save daily usage statistics for a WordPress plugin for later use in analytics.
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Instructions for WordPress plugin developers as to how to add GDPR compliance to their code.
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Build translation files to localize a WordPress plugin using grunt. Create separate translation files for the front-end and back-end.
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Insider secrets to making your plugin work well on multisite installs, both when it is network activated and when it is not.
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How to migrate trac project from 1.0.12 to a 0.11.7 installation if your project is MySQL based.
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I am always aiming for a hierarchical Gruntfile.js structure that reminds me of increasingly verbose memes. And you should, too.
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How to open a shell here, in the directory of the file you’re currently editing in Geany.
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Here’s some code to restore the auto_increment flag on the primary keys of a WordPress MySQL database after a faulty export/import cycle.
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In this article we will go through some code that I like to use to make dismissible notices where the dismissal persists between page refreshes in the WordPress administration screens.
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☑ WordPress checklists to go through before publishing a theme or plugin
In this meta-article I will list eight WordPress checklists and a book that you will want to go through, before you publish a theme or plugin.
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I’m going to share with you a trick that I use to run wp-cli as the www-data user on my Linux development environment.
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I’d like to share with you a handy bash alias to create a TracGit link to your latest commit.
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How to offer subscription downloads and support with WordPress
In this article I will show you one way you can create a WordPress site where subscription downloads and support are available only to current subscribers.
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In this article I aim to show you how I backup my WordPress sites on my Digital Ocean droplet.
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Here I would like to share with you my strategy for developing and maintaining “freemium” WordPress plugins that are easy to maintain and release.
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In this article I will show you how to use a bloginfo filter to add markup to your WordPress blog’s title and other metadata, without hurting your SEO.
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In this article I will discuss how a WordPress developer can choose which buttons are shown in the toolbars of a WPBakery Page Builder TinyMCE editor.
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In this article I will show you how you can use a mixture of Markdown, LaTeX, and inline JavaScript to create PDF documents as part of your Grunt project.
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Use Docker to test your WordPress themes and plugins on a range of PHP and WordPress versions.
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