In this second installment of my Converting WordPress to Web App series, I look into Adding Version Control! And while using a repo for a WP site is not exactly a challenge, it is an important part of this process, and there are a few items to be aware of if you are new to Version Control for projects with a Build process. So let’s quickly run through this part! Continue reading
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Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading
Converting WordPress to Web App: Series Intro
With all the great, new web technologies flying around, we developers naturally want to dive into, play with, and ideally benefit from, all of them! But if you are working with WordPress, some of these new technologies can be challenging to integrate into the “typical” workflow. But I plan to convert my standard WP website to a cache-enabled, offline-first, performance-optimized, installable Web App, that takes advantage of Build and Deployment processes, and sits safely revisioned in a Version Control repo. Come along for the ride, it should be… fun! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading
Getting to know, and adding, JSON-LD to a WordPress site
JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is fairly new, not very complicated, but also not completely useful yet. It is yet another attempt to convert our rambling content into structured data (moving forward from Microformats, RDFa, etc.). Some day this may help your site’s SEO, and might even allow you or someone else to create data crawlers that can find and connect data across the web. Get to know JSON-LD and find out how to I added it to this WordPress site. Continue reading
Adding HTTPS to my Dreamhost WordPress site
For some time I have wanted to upgrade this site to HTTPS, but I have heard so many horror stories that I kept putting it off and putting it off. Finally, a couple articles arrived serendipitously, and helped convince me that now was the time. I have no major breakthroughs here, but a) I wanted to brag a little, and b) I wanted to highlight a couple issues I encountered, resources I found, and workarounds I used. Continue reading
Today’s Readings
The latest installment in my “Today’s Readings” series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web. Happy reading! Continue reading