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Development WordPress

ChatGPT and why you shouldn’t use it for coding

I’m trying to make some changes to one of my WordPress plugins and, for reasons that I’m finding maddeningly frustrating, it’s not working.

So, I thought I’d try ChatGPT to see if it could work out the cause. Here’s how it went…

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Development WordPress

How WordPress works with nonces

If you’re British, you probably just spat out your tea.

If you’re not, and know your WordPress, then this post title may seem perfectly innocent.

Because WordPress has a language problem.

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Development WordPress

5 things all WordPress plugin developers should be doing

Today, I’m going to document 5 things that I think WordPress plugin developers should be doing, if they’re not already.

And there may be some controversial choices here, particularly for those who develop premium plugins. One of the most popular plugins, for example, fails every single one of these.

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Development How To WordPress

Verify your WordPress website on Mastodon

If you’re using Mastodon, then it’s possible to verify your website links in your profile. When done, you’ll see something like this…

The green background and tick shows it’s been verified as belonging to you.

Here’s how you do it..

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Development WordPress

Using Telegram? You can now subscribe to updates from this blog!

Yes, Telegram users, you can now get updates about this blog directly in your messenger service.

And all you need to do is follow follow this channel. Nothing more involved and you’ll get cool updates whenever I post here.

If you’re interested in adding this to your own WordPress site, then there’s a great tutorial here.