Development & Dev Tools

In my last article for Torque, I wrote about why I think that for PHP code following the coding standards set by the PHP community make more sense than those set for WordPress core. These standards are based on serving the needs of an existing legacy code base, limited to language features that are 10 …

When I started in WordPress development, I was very lucky that I found good quality tutorials by experienced developers such as Tom McFarlin and Pippin Williamson, who understood the ecosystem well. The more I learned, the more I came to value sticking to “The WordPress Way”. Since I learned plugin development by working as a …

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WordPressify is a modern workflow for your WordPress development, with integrated web server and auto-reload. Style pre-processors and ES6 ready.

Open source software is thriving. Large corporations are building on software that rests on open collaboration, enjoying the many benefits of significant c

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Here's how to make a WP-CLI connection to WordPress by logging into the remote server via SSH. From there, you can perform all your daily routine tasks.

Managing WordPress from the command line can be much for efficient - especially for repeated actions. Here's how to install WP-CLI on Windows.

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If you’re someone working with Git, here are five ideas for an enhanced GitHub workflow that may help make your more productive.

Installing Imagick is really pain on other systems. However, it is trivial with Laragon if you follow these below steps (works with both Apache & Nginx): Download links: PHP Extension (PECL): https://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.4.3RC1/windows Imagick ...

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FontBase includes all the features of a professional font manager, but for free and on every platform.

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A few more thoughts on AMP, on Ursula Franklin’s questions, and on just technology.

Every modern website needs a responsive design. This does require more effort but the end result is worthwhile. I actually recommend testing your ideas with responsive design tools to see how your site looks at each stage. You can look for usability issues on different screen sizes all from one handy tool. And these free tools are my top picks for responsive testing since they're all super easy to use. Best of all these support many device sizes so you can get a good feeling for how your layout should look from smartphones to desktops. 1. XRespond The XRespond app calls itself a "virtual de...

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and dir…

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When you're brand new to development in PHP or JavaScript, you don't really need or want to think too hard about programming paradigms. You just want to ge

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You can see your project's Ruby and JavaScript dependencies in the dependency graph. …

Do you know that you don’t have even a single excuse to fail at one of these? So you think that you know that coding kata well? What if I told you there are additional requirements that the interviewe…