Coding

Coding and code related posts. Thoughts on Wordpress, Magento and coding in general.

  • Learnings While Scaling WooCommerce

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    WooCommerce has, at the time of writing, passed over 6 million downloads (and several million active installations) on WordPress.org. What many aren’t aware of is, WooCommerce reached the 5 million download mark with only 3 engineers officially working full time on the project (while working on several other projects as well). Throughout this process, we…

  • Set a custom rewrite rule for author archives in WordPress

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    In the comments of my post on custom rewrite rules in WordPress, I received a query regarding creating author profile URLs using a rewrite convention of “/profile“. The WordPress author archives are a great way to create profiles for each author on your WordPress-powered website (in fact, it’s done for you by default). The author…

  • Test your knowledge of WordPress with “The WordPress Test”

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    So… you think you know WordPress, huh? 😉 Well, why not test your skills and see where you rank on the world’s stage? Presenting… the WordPress test! I blogged the other day about using Smarterer and Code School for online education. As a starting point, take the test below and see how you stack up.…

  • One-up your web development skills for free with these online services

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    As a developer in an industry where trends and languages grow and evolve at pace, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the latest happenings. Thus, developers tend to specialise in certain languages or platforms which they watch. For example, while I keep tabs on developments within the PHP and WordPress communities, and…

  • Default post thumbnails in WordPress

    Default post thumbnails in WordPress

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    There is regular discussion within the WordPress user community on certain common encounters developers have when creating themes and plugins. One such discussion is around post thumbnails 1 and, more specifically, how to specify a default thumbnail. After reading a few discussions around this, I thought I’d share my take on things. There are a…

  • Filtering the Options API in WordPress

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    The Options API in WordPress is one of the many APIs we all use every day when developing with WordPress. A quick use of get_option() is not uncommon. What if you could filter those options? You can. Adding filters in WordPress is also a common practice. Combining this with the Options API can allow for,…