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A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: Adding a New Setting
By now, we've taken a look at what the Theme Customizer is, how it works, and the components that are unique to it. We've even discussed how options are...
Tom McFarlin
8 Oct 2013
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A Guide to the WordPress Theme Customizer: What It Is, Why It Benefits Us
About a year ago, we did a short series of articles on WordPress' Theme Customizer. Now that the Theme Customizer has been available in WordPress for quite...
Tom McFarlin
24 Sep 2013
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Migrating Your WordPress Database: WP Migrate DB - Development to Production
If you've been pacing with this series, then you know that we've been working to not only survey the WordPress database, but work with tools that make our...
Tom McFarlin
14 Sep 2013
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Migrating Your WordPress Database: WP Migrate DB - Production to Development
In this series, we're taking a look at not only the structure of the WordPress database, but strategies that make it easy to perform migrations from...
Tom McFarlin
11 Sep 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: Saving Data From wp_remote_post
In the previous post in the series, we began working on a small plugin that provided a practical example of wp_remote_post. The thing is, the example was...
Tom McFarlin
20 Aug 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Practical Example of wp_remote_post
In the previous article, we reviewed the previous articles regarding GET requests, the native PHP facilities for making requests, and reviewed WordPress...
Tom McFarlin
16 Aug 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Brief Survey of wp_remote_post
In the first series on the WordPress HTTP API, we took a look at wp_remote_get. Specifically, we took a look at the following aspects of the API: A...
Tom McFarlin
8 Aug 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: wp_remote_get - the Arguments
In the last two posts, we've taken a brief survey of the wp_remote_get function as well as a practical implementation of how to use it. Before moving on...
Tom McFarlin
26 Jul 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: wp_remote_get - the Response
In this series, we've been taking a look at the wp_remote_get WordPress HTTP API function in order to understand how it works, how we can use it, and the...
Tom McFarlin
24 Jul 2013
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A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Practical Example of wp_remote_get
In the last article in this series, we took a look at the PHP functions that are available for making remote requests. Specifically, we reviewed: ...
Tom McFarlin
19 Jul 2013
Code
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Brief Survey of wp_remote_get
When it comes to making remote requests within the context of web sites, web applications, and even WordPress-based projects, the model that we follow is...
Tom McFarlin
16 Jul 2013
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The WordPress Coding Standards: Database Queries and Formatting SQL Queries
Aside from the summary that we're going to be providing as the last article in this series, this is the last explication of the WordPress Coding Standards...
Tom McFarlin
25 Jun 2013
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