Category: Back-End Development
[ad_1] Sometimes you’ll hear, at a meetup for example, this word “cron” (or is it kron? “Chron”?!) around WordPress. Today we’ll understand what the heck it is and what it helps us do. WordPress scheduled tasks are common and useful for everything from ecommerce plugins to WordPress core itself.The power of WP Cron is real, … Continue reading Understand WordPress Scheduled Tasks: WP Cron Makes Sense
[ad_1] In this video and text Quick Guide, we present a basic use of WP_Query inside a WordPress shortcode, to show the post titles of the five most recently published posts. We’ve designed this Quick Guide to be a simple intro to using WP_Query in general, as well as to using WP_Query to display post … Continue reading Simple WP_Query Example: Using a Shortcode to Display Post Titles
[ad_1] This article describes how to work with WordPress custom fields, also called post meta. In it, we describe how to use WordPress’s post meta PHP functions, especially get_post_meta() and update_post_meta(), and provide in-depth code demos as well as practical advice for working with custom fields tools like Pods and Advanced Custom Fields. This discussion … Continue reading How to Create and Use WordPress Custom Fields
[ad_1] This video and text Quick Guide explains how to prevent browser caching of CSS files in WordPress. The CSS cache busting tricks here will work outside WordPress, too: you’ll just need your own method of adding query strings.Why Browsers Cache CSS StylesheetsWhen a browser caches a CSS stylesheet, what it’s doing is getting that … Continue reading How to Prevent Browser Caching of a CSS Stylesheet in WordPress
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