If I get a decent price and a matching service, I’m usually pretty loyal to companies – I’m not the kind of person who moves to save a couple of pounds.
And after many years, I’ve been looking to move ISP. Indeed, I nearly did but then it all went badly… except for the service I got from the ISP I planned to move to.
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We can already quickly and easily embed Tweets in WordPress posts, but wouldn’t it be great to add entire threads too? Well, you can. All you need is the block editor and version 8.7, or greater, of Jetpack.
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I’ve had my brand-new Puma for just 6 days now, so it’s time for me to spill my initial thoughts on ownership. The good, bad and ugly.
Okay, nothing ugly. If I’d bought a car with that level of issues, I clearly hadn’t done my homework first…
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With everything going in the world right now our use of language has come into sharper focus. Words matter.
And as a contributor to WordPress, a platform that runs over 35% of the internet, I’ve been turning my eye towards the language it uses. On screens and in code.
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WordPress has a native database caching system called the Transients API. This simple wrapper can be used for caching database queries, remote data, or other expensive routines.
In this technical talk you will discover how to best use the API and the pitfalls to avoid (content which is neither documented nor generally available, so this will be a genuine eye-opener for developers).
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