This is just a very short post to offer some advice to any developers who are adding PHP extensions to their wordpress environment using the pecl tool. This is a tool which compiles extensions and links them to the PHP binary so they run correctly. When the install process takes…
Filters in WordPress are one of the mechanisms which allows the WordPress core system to call and run new code written after the core was written. They are one of the first conceptual ideas that you need to understand when you start developing in wordpress, because the very first rule…
Shortcodes in WordPress are a mechanism used to embed pieces of content into posts, pages or widgets without having to edit template files or themes. They are a simple text sequence, which can be added into any content area, and prior to the content being displayed the shortcode is found and…
This is a quick post to explain how I arrange my development environment and use symlinks to aid wordpress plugin development. Although it isn’t essential, I find it helps me to keep the different projects I’m working on in separate directories from the rest of the wordpress install. In my…
In this, the final part of the wordpress install series, I’m going to walk through the famous wordpress 5 minute install, and also talk about the changes required to the DNS to get the new site visible on the internet. DNS changes In fact and probably obviously, the DNS needs…