Development & Dev Tools

Sitemaps and Userflows Made Simple

We rarely acknowledge the vast majority of web developers.

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.

Debugging software with a rubber ducky

You are a developer. You read books, blog posts, and Tweets about the practice of how to construct clean code. Do you truly understand why? I never advocate blindly following. Rather, I encourage you to ask: Why should I care about writing clean, readable code? Let's answer that question to provide clarity of the purpose and intent behind the practice. Let's answer why.

Find out how you can use the free query monitor plugin to pinpoint and debug slow queries and transactions that take place on your WordPress website.

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.

Prevent browser caching of CSS files in WordPress, with these guaranteed tricks for CSS cache busting. Includes code demos and a video guide.

This post introduces the Layout Instability API, its key concepts, and explains how to use the API and provide feedback

WP Staging creates a clone of your website with a single click and pushes back file changes to the live site. A perfect tool for testing & development purposes.

Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, and Redis.

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Step 1 Create folder wp-cli in C drive. Step 2 Download wp-cli.phar from Step 3 Move downloaded wp-cli.phar file in C:\wp-cli\ Step 4 Create wp.bat file in C:\wp-cli\ and write below code in it. @E…

Depending on how you've installed WP-CLI, you may need to delete a file or an entire directory.

WP-CLI is an awesome tool if you want to manage your WordPress site in the most efficient way possible. Here's how to get started with WP-CLI.

I think most developers would agree that WP-CLI (the self-described “command-line interface for WordPress”) is the best thing to happen to WordPress since my-hacks.php. It is my favorite way to… Read more

The last time I told someone I was a WordPress developer, they replied: “So you’re in charge of managing the content”?

Suppose your company decides to change its code-hosting provider or you wish to move your own Git repository to a different host. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. When I had to move a number of Git projects to a new host, it took me quite some time to find an accurate method.

Need a solid, super fast local solution to develop websites? Try Laragon, it's changed the way I build eCommerce and business websites.

The web is the best place for your projects but there may be reasons for keeping some of them offline. The most common practice for deploying offline is via a local server. There are numerous options available yet we chose Laragon as the most convenient. That’s for if you’re using a computer with Microsoft Windows. […]

Illustrated web development & javascript tutorials

Modern design tools, of both the vector and code kind, are amazing pieces of software that in recent years have transformed the design profession, but none of them seem to really understand the con…

Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level.

Learn how to create a new branch from master and make your first Git commit

Compress and compare images with different codecs, right in your browser

Website planning tool, create your website structure.