Development

If you’re editing a website but only have theme access, and no access to the database, you can temporarily add the code below into your theme ‘front-page.php’ or other theme file to update either: The existing first user’s email address Add a new Administrator user Remember to remove this code when your have finished your ...

This post explains how to use the jQuery Lazy library in a WordPress template. By implementing this library into a template manually will give you greater flexibility in terms of which images can be ‘lazy loaded’. A couple of requirements are necessary before using the jQuery Lazy library: Requires at least jQuery 3.4.1 – This ...

I have been using loadCSS from the Filament Group recently, it’s a great tool to asynchronously load your CSS files in-order to increase your scores for Google’s PageSpeed tests. The main issue I faced is using loadCSS with WordPress. WordPress has many plugins to install and each of these plugins usually integrate with the hook...

This has just come to my attention today, the developer team at WordPress will be making changes to the minimum PHP versions required by the WordPress core in the upcoming months. This is tracked in the core discussion here, a news article from ZDNet also talks about this change here. Starting with WordPress 5.1, a ...

First post of 2019! During the holidays I have been catching up on a backlog of video talks which I have been wanting to watch. I have embedded the videos below:   HTTP Headers – The State of the Web This is a really good video, discussing some of the most common HTTP headers, how ...