Author: Lea Cohen

Best Image Optimizer for WordPress

What Does Image Optimization Mean?

We often hear the phrase Image Optimization in the context of site building and maintenance, but what exactly does it mean? Image optimization is the compression of an image’s file size (its weight) without changing its dimensions (its width and height). Some optimizations reduce the image’s quality – that is called a “lossy” compression, and some leave the quality intact, and that is called a lossless compression.



An Introduction to the WordPress PHP Coding Standards

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Coding makes you follow rules – every language has its own syntax to which you have to adhere if you want your code to compile or run. But there is another set of rules, that while isn’t essential for the actual running the code, helps in peripheral parts of coding. These rules are called Coding Standards.



4 Steps to Become a WordPress Plugin Developer

This article will take you by the hand and lead you to become a WordPress plugin developer. We’ll analyze when the circumstances call for writing a plugin, where to place your plugin code and some best practices, and give you a taste of a few WordPress concepts regarding plugin development while coding a simple plugin.


How to Display Posts on a Category Page, Divided Into Their Respective Subcategories

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Say you have a category page on which you’re asked to display all the posts that belong to that category’s subcategories. So far no sweat – a category page displays by default all its descendant posts, whether they belong directly to that category or any of its subcategories. But here’s the twist: say you have to display them in such a way that the subcategory names are displayed (challenge no. 1), and under each subcategory’s name you have to display all its posts (challenge no. 2).