Hell is Programming a Calendar (Part 1)

A project team is managing a site for people to see events in their local community. The client asks the team to make a (seemingly) pretty simple feature; they want logged-in users to be able to make their own events. The site already lets admins do this, so it shouldn’t be too bad. The team agrees it should take about two days of dev work, assign it, and move on.

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Still a work in progress for many

It’s hard to overstate the key role of application reliability and performance for today’s organisations. To compete effectively and grow in modern digital markets, businesses must meet high customer expectations for a great experience. Hybrid workplace strategies and work-from-home policies make it all the more critical to deliver a consistent high-quality experience wherever people work. Rising cyberthreats and an expanding attack surface call for a heightened focus on security. And agility is a must

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WordPress Code Snippets With Cloud Support

WPCodeBox supports all code snippet types that you will ever need when working with WordPress. Add inline or external JS, CSS.  WPCodeBox will compile SCSS or LESS to CSS.  The WPCodeBox editor provides code completion for WordPress, PHP, CSS, SCSS and JavaScript.  Source link

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The Future of Plugin, Themes, and Services Purchases on WordPress.com – WordPress.com News

Recently we shared that you can now purchase six popular Automattic plugins right from your WordPress.com dashboard. We’re intentionally testing this out with our own products before opening it up to the broader community. This is the first step in our plan to make taking your site to the next level faster, easier, and more flexible than ever before. But it’s really just the beginning. What’s coming soon Today, we’d

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Sustainable backend web development | Factorial

A website can be further accelerated by using a content delivery network (CDN). In this case, a third-party provider is used to deliver resources and provides specialized servers for this purpose. If a CDN is used, the latency time for accessing resources is reduced: an independent network of caching servers distributed over geographically sensible locations ensures that content only has to cover the shortest possible routes for delivery. This reduces

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Debunking the top myths about cloud-based physical security

Over the years, cloud-based physical security technology has been increasing in power and popularity as many businesses have begun to favour the cloud over on-premises systems. According to cloud security company Thales, 90% of companies worldwide use the cloud. The cloud is essential to data management for most businesses and there are many reasons why.  Cloud-based technology is sweeping the security industry because of its advanced abilities and unparalleled convenience.

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Adding Custom GitHub Badges to Your Repo | CSS-Tricks

If you’ve spent time looking at open-source repos on GitHub, you’ve probably noticed that most of them use badges in their README files. Take the official React repository, for instance. There are GitHub badges all over the README file that communicate important dynamic info, like the latest released version and whether the current build is passing. Badges like these provide a nice way to highlight key information about a repository. You can even use your own custom assets

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Customize Your Entire Site With New Block Themes – WordPress.com News

Customize Your Entire Site With New Block Themes Experiment with a new look for your site with themes created to take advantage of Full Site Editing. Kjell Reigstad In case you missed it, we’ve been rolling out a new set of powerful site design tools called Full Site Editing (or “FSE”) and it’s now available for all WordPress.com users! Don’t worry if you’re just hearing about Full Site Editing for the

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Sustainable web development | Factorial

The problem is not new Incidentally, this is also the case with the use of the bandwidth available to us. If you look at the information content of each megabyte transmitted, it has developed almost antiproportionally to the bandwidth: The actual utility of the transmitted data is getting smaller and smaller, while the bandwidth is getting larger and larger. Economist William Stanley Jevons noted as early as the mid-19th century

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Database Tip: Clean Up User-Agent Data

I just finished up my latest book, Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress. And it’s packed with over 300 time-saving code snippets for managing and optimizing your WordPress database. For example, one of the recipes from the book shows how to delete unwanted user-agent data from the WP comments table. This is an easy optimization step that can help to free up some precious disk space. Check out the Demo/Table of

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