What is a transient?
A transient is a way of storing data in WordPress for temporary purposes – it’s often used for caching, for example. Transients can, optionally, be given an expiry timestamp, after which time they will be deleted.
How to use transients?
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CSS is my weak spot in web development, so I’m always happy to come across useful compilations of useful snippets – in this case CSS that allows you to do some pretty whizzy stuff, really easily.
For those with a self-hosted WordPress site, there’s no better way to embed videos than with the YouTube Embed plugin. Free to use with no adverts, it’s already had over 400,000 downloads.
And to make things even easier the people at Webucator have put together an excellent video showing you how to get started with it.
Learn more about the WordPress training courses (both online and onsite) that Webucator provides.
I genuinely love my Tsohost hosting but my antiquated cPanel hosting needs a 2015 makeover. So, over the coming hours/days I’m migrating (still at Tsohost, I hasten to add) to their Cloud platform. Goodness awaits and I’m looking forward to getting to know it further. Meantime, expect some downtime, which can’t be helped, as the sites are migrated.
