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Introduction to WordPress Themes
Themes are one of the most fundamental parts of a WordPress site, as they control the entire look and feel of our website. Whether we’re running a blog, an online store, or a business site, understanding WordPress themes will be crucial for designing a website that aligns with our brand and functionality goals. What is…
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Understanding WordPress: Authentication Cookies & Sessions
In the world of WordPress security, few topics are as misunderstood and poorly documented as WordPress authentication cookies and session management. While many online sources provide information about how WordPress manages sessions, the majority of them are outdated or inaccurate, often leading to confusion. Basic Concepts How WordPress Manages Sessions? Session Creation When a user…
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Custom Tables in WordPress
WordPress provides a flexible platform for developing websites. While it comes with a quite extensive set of built-in database tables for handling posts, comments, and users, sometimes we need to create a custom table to store and manage our own data. Whether it’s for storing plugin-specific settings, custom data models, or other content. In this…
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WP-Cron: A Comprehensive Guide
In WordPress, the wp-cron plays a crucial role in automating tasks that need to occur periodically. From publishing scheduled posts to clearing spam comments or checking for updates wp-cron makes it possible for WordPress to handle routine tasks without manual intervention. What is wp-cron? To put it simply, wp-cron is cron for WordPress. Cron jobs…
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User Roles in WordPress
When working with WordPress, user roles play a vital role in determining who can access specific parts of the website, and what actions they can perform. For many WordPress administrators, its crucial to define granular access levels based on the types of content being managed on the site. Whether we are managing blog posts, products…
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Rewrite API: A practical usecase
As we know, the Rewrite API in WordPress, allows us to control the structure and handling of URLs for our content. Whether we want to create custom URLs for our post types, taxonomies, or even specific pages, this API comes in handy. In this blog post, we will walk through how to leverage the Rewrite…
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Introduction to WordPress Rewrite API
The Rewrite API is a method to help developer manipulate URL structures also known as permalinks for custom post types, taxonomies. It is a critical component of WordPress and used extensively to create user-friendly and SEO-Optimized permalinks. How Rewrite API works? The Rewrite API allows developers to add their own rewrite rules and tie them…
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Dashboard Widgets in WordPress
As WordPress developers we know how powerful and flexible it is, one of the feature that allows us to streamline our workflows and improve user experience is the WordPress dashboard. By customizing the dashboard with widgets we can have users have quick access to various information and tasks. What are Dashboard Widgets? Dashboard widgets are…
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Working with Transient API
As we have seen previously seen what the Transient API is in WordPress, this blog explores the best practices and other things to keep in mind when using the Transient API to ensure efficiency, integrity and speed of our website. Best Practices for Using Transient API Appropriate Expiration Time Transients are intended for temporary storage…
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Transient API and HTTP API in WordPress
As developers, we frequently find ourselves interacting with various APIs to streamline our workflows, enhance performance and improve the overall user experience. Two of the tools that help us achieve this are the HTTP API and the Transients API. In this blog we will explore both of these, as to how we can incorporate them…