Tag: Development Practices

Understanding PHP Globals and Variable Scope in WordPress

David Hayes / April 2, 2019

Posted In: Back-End Development
Tags: Development Practices, PHP, Up and Running, WordPress Development
Difficulty: Intermediate

One of the most maligned features of WordPress is the use of “PHP global variables.” Whether you love them or hate them, thoughm global variables probably aren’t leaving WordPress soon.

Object-Oriented PHP for WordPress Developers

Fred Meyer / January 15, 2019

Posted In: Back-End Development, Courses
Tags: Development Practices, Object Orientation, Object Oriented, Object-Oriented PHP, object-oriented programming, Objects, OOP
Difficulty: Advanced, Intermediate

Welcome to our free course on object-oriented PHP (OOPHP) for WordPress. This course explains the following:

“My Developer Ruined My Site’s SEO”: Three Huge SEO Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Fred Meyer / February 6, 2018

Posted In: Editorial, Using WordPress
Tags: 301, Development Practices, Discourage Search Engines, Redirects, SEO, Up and Running, WordPress SEO, Yoast SEO
Difficulty: Beginner

Far too often, a developer comes in to “modernize” a site—and ends up wrecking a thriving online business by ruining its SEO.

Using Browser Tabs and Windows Efficiently in WordPress Development

Fred Meyer / June 7, 2016

Posted In: Using WordPress
Tags: Development Practices, Tips and Tricks, WordPress Development
Difficulty: Beginner

A lot of my work in WordPress is tacit knowledge: general know-how that I take for granted, and that it doesn’t even occur to me I have. The problem with tacit knowledge in teaching is that other people might miss important things that it wouldn’t even occur to you to teach because it feels “too basic.”