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Let’s talk about the ternary operator. It can be confusing for many. In this video, Tonya puts the if/else side-by-side with its equivalent ternary to help you know and understand it. The alternate syntax tip is found here. This tip is valid for JavaScript and PHP.

PHP namespaces are easy to use and make coding faster & easier. They work like a folder structure. Learn how to use them in WordPress plugins & themes.

Installing ImageMagick 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/3.4.3/windows Imagick...

While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance. So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as …

WordPress-Coding-Standards - PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions

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 …

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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