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The best WordPress plugins to improve performance
I see this getting asked a lot, and I’ve just answered this exact question on Reddit. The thing is, the best plugins are not plugins.
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Added a plugin to the WordPress directory? Here’s what to do next
Once you’ve had your plugin accepted into the WordPress.org directory, there are a few steps that I’d highly recommend any developer doing before moving on.
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The definitive guide to the WordPress.org plugin assets folder
If you’ve ever added a plugin to the WordPress.org directory, you’ll find there’s a folder named assets waiting for you in SVN. In this article, I’m going to explore what you can add to this, and the various limitations and formats available to you.
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Restoring the Side Panel button in Google Chrome
A recent update to Google Chrome has got rid of the side panel button and added a new “pinning” feature instead. The side panel button opened up the bookmarks sidebar and, from there, you could switch it to one of the other sidebars. In particular, I use the Reading List feature, so this was how…
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extract() usage is highly discouraged
In 2012, the much loved and much missed WordPress developer Alex Mills raised a WordPress Trac ticket… extract() is a terrible function that makes code harder to debug and harder to understand. We should discourage it’s use and remove all of our uses of it. As a result, use of the PHP functions was removed from…