I’m just testing version 5 of my YouTube Embed WordPress plugin. There are a couple of major changes, which are particularly noteworthy…
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Plugin developer, Core contributor and support volunteer. Yeah, I’m a WordPress fan!
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WordPress Plans
It’s no good, I’ve spent too long away from my WordPress plugins and need to spend more time on them. The last few months I’ve been revamping my site and, due to other circumstances, spending far too long having to re-visit as many of my 1000+ posts and editing them. However, I gave myself a deadline and that’s the end of this week. My post editing is done and any work this weekend will be final tweaks to the site itself.
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How WordPress Transients Work
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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Advanced CSS Tricks & Techniques
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.
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Getting started with YouTube Embed for WordPress
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.