Full Stack web developer building great user experiences within the WordPress Block Editor as a Theme and Plugins developer @Melapress.
Are you walking through the door or falling through the window when it comes to AI? The debate around AI and prompt engineering rages on, with strong arguments both for and against. But for me, it’s less about the debate and more about the inevitable reality: AI is here, and the only question that truly…
WordPress Performance: Busting Myths & Finding Gold! ✨ Let’s clear the air: WordPress isn’t inherently slow. What is slow? Bad hosting, bloated themes, and a plugin jungle! And without proper page caching, any WordPress site is fighting an uphill battle. I’ve been on a quest for the perfect WordPress caching solution for years. Like many…
Alright fellow WordPress enthusiasts! Let’s talk about a silent killer in our codebases: the ticking time bomb of unaddressed issues. You might not call it anything fancy, but it’s a fundamental truth in software development: code left unreviewed, untested, or incompletely implemented is a future bug waiting to happen. These aren’t just theoretical gremlins; they…
Tired of String Spaghetti in WordPress? 🍝 There’s a Better Way!Remember the days of wrestling with endless string concatenation to build HTML in PHP? 😩 Thankfully, ES6 gave us Template Literals, making life so much cleaner! Ever found yourself lost in a tangled mess of dots and single/double quotes while crafting WordPress templates or template…
🚀 A Decade Old WordPress Site Gets a 15 Minute Makeover 🚀Would you believe that a 10+ year old WordPress site, left mostly untouched over the years, could be updated in just 15 minutes with zero errors? It’s one of my first custom built WordPress themes, still live today, running on shared hosting, with no…
Does your OOP in WordPress plugins/themes looks like this robot, creation of a 5 years old kid, and you are the cook behind? It is cute and fearsome at the same time and it serves the purpose, you are feeling safe. What are you doing when you’ve got some actions and filters that you want…
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Does Alibaba run their services on the WordPress, certainly not, but connection is somehow present. I don’t actually remember when I first watched Crocodile in the Yangtze since I watched it few times. It is documentary about Jack Ma as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building China’s first global internet company,…
Although I dived into WordPress back in 2012, I remember capital_P_dangit function and al the WPDrama around it. Did you know about this function? This is not about marking anyone feel as less experienced developer, after all providing solution to a problem is what really matters. When having a brand or a trademark you will…
During the holidays I had enough time to go trough entire WordPress 6.8 Field Guide, and from a developer perspective I can point out two important improvements. Security is now more strengten by replacing phpass with bcrypt for password hashing which improved resistance to brute-force attacks and it is now alignned with current industry best…
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This tutorial is on how to integrate Bootstrap 3 navbar into WordPress Theme I assume you already know about Bootstrap and use it in mock-ups for development. This raises the question: “How can you integrate Bootstrap components into a WordPress theme?” And above all most useful and essential Bootstrap component for integration into WordPress is definitely…
PHP count and display items in a 2D (multidimensional) array This is a short snippet about counting elements in array and displaying all items. Below is a sample 2D (two dimensional) array. Columns represents respectively: SKU, NAME and PRICE. $products = array( array(‘TIR’, ‘Tires’, 100), array(‘OIL’, ‘Oil’, 10), array(‘SPK’, ‘Spark plugs’, 4), array(‘WPR’, ‘Wiper blade’, 3)…
jQuery Snippet – setting height based on another div height This still represents a tutorial rather then a snippet because I wanted to introduce you to a situation in real life. For example if you have an old client with whom you have a good relationship. I personally will skip creating PSD designs, when my old…