Do you know where your third parties are going?
Third-party scripts on your site present a potentially dangerous side effect. We don't know what additional assets third-party load. That has security and performance implications. This post will...
Implementing Quotebacks in WordPress
Quotebacks are an interesting way to cite content from other websites. They work in two stages. Installing the extension and getting the quotations # The first one is HTML formatted with special data...
Building a Network Navigator
In 1987 Apple released this concept video of what they called a Network Navigator, an integrated agent to manage data from different sources, communicate with people across the network, and share...
Reviewing Lazy Loading in WordPress
In the not too distant future, WordPress will have lazy loading by default in WordPress core enabled by default. I believe that this will be merged into WordPress core for the 5.5 release; until then,...
Inline scripts in WordPress
There are times when we need to add scripts to the page that will run only when there is a script already enqueued and loaded before it happens. I got bit by this when trying to use FontFaceObserver....
Using ES modules in Node
Node has had experimental support for EcmaScript modules for a while. Again, this is one thing I've wanted to explore for a while but have never felt the need to dig deeper. After all, it is...
Internationalizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (part 2)
Internationalizing a plugin # After setting up the text domain in your plugin metadata we need to load the translated files to use them. For plugins we use the load_plugin_textdomain function; it...
Internationalizing WordPress Themes and Plugins (part 1)
According to GALA (Globalization and Localization Alliance): Internationalization is a design process that ensures a product (usually a software application) can be adapted to various languages and...
Security Hardening WordPress
WordPress security is as good as you make it and you can always make it better. This post will discuss tools and techniques for making your WordPress installation more secure. Some of these are...
WordPress CMS CRUD (Part 5): Adding attributes to a REST API endpoint
When working with APIs we should never, under any circumstance, remove elements from the endpoint. Even if you're the owner there is no real way to know who's consuming your data and how they are...