This weekend I’ll be presenting on “Isomorphic WordPress Applications using NodeifyWP”. I’ll also be discussing the NodeifyWP Environment – a Dockerized environment pre-setup for running NodeifyWP applications. [...]
Today, I am speaking at the inaugural WordCamp Denpasar. I will be giving a talk on NodeifyWP and Twenty Sixteen React, giving the debut demo of the framework. NodeifyWP is a framework, created by 10up, for creating isomorphic JavaScript applications within PHP and WordPress. Twenty Sixteen React is an example theme using the framework along with [...]
Data compression is an extremely important topic in modern computing, networking, and software engineering. Sharing information faster and in smaller sizes across a network is a boundary that will continue to be pushed as long as computers and the internet exist. Large companies like Google and very smart people have continuously refined and created new [...]
Today I’m presenting on Best Practices for WordPress in Enterprise at Music City Code 2016. Here are a few of the topics that will be covered: – Caching for high traffic situation – Security techniques – Writing maintainable/extensible code – Optimizing database reads/writes – Search Teamwork in software development – Browser performance – Workflows – [...]
Using the post_class() and get_post_class() functions can slow down your website. This post explains why and how to fix it. [...]
Today I’m presenting on Best Practices for WordPress at WordCamp Porto 2016. This talk is similar to my WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise talk but will be a bit more general and has some updated topics. Specifically, this presentation will include: – Caching for high traffic situation – Security techniques – Writing maintainable/extensible code – [...]
Today I am presenting at DevIgnition 2016. Fluxible is a framework by Yahoo that follows the Flux architecture by Facebook. The framework enables you to build powerful isomorphic JavaScript applications that are extremely maintainable, extensible, and scalable using React.js components. The Flux architecture employs a “unidirectional dataflow” and has three major parts: “dispatcher”, “stores”, and [...]
I released a new plugin called Simple Cache. In my blog post Comparison of Popular WordPress Caching Solutions, I rated a number of popular caching plugins pointing out what I like and dislike about each. After writing the post, I decided to create my own plugin that embodies all the characteristics that I think are [...]
WordPress has gotten a reputation of being, among other things, “slow”. Is that true? Well, yes and no. One of the most important factors in website performance is “caching”. Caching is the act of saving things that are computed often in easy to access places. For example, rather than running a tough database query every time [...]
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