I recently learned about a browser feature where, if you provide a special HTTP header, it will automatically post to a URL with a report of any non-HTTPS content. This would be a great thing to do when transitioning a …
Of all the projects I’ve worked in the last few years, there’s one that stands out as my favorite: I wrote a WordPress plugin called Great Eagle (Tolkien reference) that allows my team to install and update themes and plugins …
This is the third and final article in a series on “remote control WordPress”. That’s my nickname for this strategy of managing network settings on one “control” install, and then pulling those values into all your client installs. The advantage …
This is the second article in a three-part series about using the WP API to achieve something I’m calling “Remote Control WordPress”, a lifestyle where you’d manage network settings on a “control” install, and have other “client” installs pull their …
At my day job, we have about 1,000 sites spread across 30 WordPress multisite installs. The installs all run many of the same plugins and settings, especially at the network level. This causes a lot of wasted time for …
At the agency I work for, we recently put all ~1,100 of our sites behind a CDN. It seems to be working. Unfortunately, I have no idea why or how we did this. Therefore, in the first part of …
The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell, a WordPress theme & plugin developer in Anchorage, AK and a regular contributor around here.
Let’s say you have a client whose business is large enough to have several departments. …
The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell. Scott is a WordPress theme & plugin developer in Anchorage, Alaska. Here, he customizes the default HTML output of WordPress’ menu system to his liking, without damaging the useful things …
In this article we dig into an important type of caching that is available to you in WordPress: transients. Like any cache, you use transients to store any kind of data that takes a long time to get, so the …
The following is a guest post by Scott Fennell. Scott saw a recent post here on CSS-Tricks about class names in WordPress and had some of his own ideas about exerting control, rather than leaving things as they are. …
