A Webmention enables enables cross-site conversations. Letting site A know that site B is mentioning them (be it via link, a like, a re-post… there are many times of mentions). One of the cool use cases is to link your Fediverse account (Mastodon, in my case) with your blog. So every time you share a […]
🚫 Problem Having to manually 😴 create unique images for Social Media (Open Graph) for your new blog posts. ✅ Solution Let’s use Node.js to engineer a script to take care of this for us 😎 ❤️ Generated image This is the final result, a dynamically generated image: 🤔 How does this work? A part […]
So you’re learning about Critical Rendering Path, you have already optimized your WordPress theme’s stylesheet but still there are WordPress core CSS files that you want to lazy load. I have a present for you 🎁 One of several techniques is to load the stylesheet using media=”print” which tells the browser this file is meant […]
You don’t need me explaining you how important it is to defer scripts for performance. If your application doesn’t need render-blocking scripts you should simply defer them. Most of the WordPress blogs/sites do not need render blocking scripts, for toggling menu visibility, swapping emojis for SVG’s, embed media… All these can be deferred no problem. […]
How to create a WordPress theme that loads a Kanban board built with Vue.js app which uses the WP REST API…
You know I’m a huge WordPress fan and I rely on it whenever I need a CMS. At this point pretty much everything is possible, don’t want to mess with PHP? Sure, use it headless with GraphQL and Next.js or the provided out of the REST API. Today I won’t be using any of the […]
If you want to extend the WordPress Tag Cloud Widget with your own custom CSS class, you can easily use the wp_generate_tag_cloud_data filter like so: Docs: filter: wp_generate_tag_cloud_data wp_generate_tag_cloud()
The WordPress REST API is a very neat thing. I’m using it to pull my To-Do list into my Firefox Start Page, which I find totally awesome 🤩 If you’re using custom post meta data is not as straight forward. For some reason the meta data is not exposed by default when you query posts […]
You might not know this about me but I used to be a WordPress developer, I used to get paid to exclusively develop Themes and Plugins at the company I worked for. It has been a while and I’ve lost the edge when it comes best practices and latest news. Specially around PHP and MySQL. […]
First of all, we need to travel back to 2019, when Google launched a new top-level domain. 👨🏻💻 .dev Before making it publicly available Google decided to have an auction period, in which people could bid on a name. Which makes perfect sense for brands. My idea was to get ricard.dev but was not willing […]