Performance

Implement caching in WordPress plugins and themes without using a plugin. WordPress' transient API provides us with the ability to create a database caching right out of the box. By implementing a simply API over the top, we can easily start to cache parts of our theme or plugins.

Have a Laravel application on a subdomain that interacts with a WordPress database? In some cases a REST API connection is simply unnecessary, especially for simple database queries. In this post we take a look at how we can improve performance and use the Eloquent ORM to interact with WordPress' data.

Create a WordPress theme using Tailwind CSS using the JIT compiler and how to watch for file changes to regenerate CSS automatically.

WordPress maintenance is essential for keeping your site running at peak performance and reducing security risks. This article covers the most essential tasks required for WordPress maintenance.

WordPress performance can be a difficult task to approach but with these simple tips and quick wins you can be off to a great start.

Take a look at your testing suite, think to yourself... If I come back to this project in a months time and decide to refactor this function, which then causes my tests to fail, could I read the tests that are failing and still be able to deduce what I broke? A well written test suite would certainly be able to do this.