Development & Dev Tools

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 …

Simple pricing that scales with your needs. Pay as-you-go for concurrent releases with unlimited runs and scenarios + no limit on space and users.

InVision, the NY-based design platform focused on collaboration, has today announced the acquisition of Wake. Wake is a design tool focused squarely on supporting design visibility throughout a particular organization. Wake allows companies to share design assets and view work in progress as designers build out their screens, logos, or other designs. Design team leaders, […]

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

Workflow process mapping isn’t easy, but these tips will make the process easier.

Collection of Sublime Text plugins/packages for HTML: essentials, preprocessors/templating, frameworks, prettification.

A recent interviewer asked me to share any words I had for "future Women in WordPress", this lovely subset of human being the focus of the article. In response, a stream of advice flowed out of me that shouldn't be solely reserved for women, but for all technologists. I hope this post serves to inspire…

Interactive charts for browsers and mobile devices.

An introduction to Git Commands.

Connecting WordPress and Git is not a bad idea per se. But, how can you do that without having to become a Git expert first? I'll show you in the following art

A story of how we developed the simplest version control for designers ever.

sonarwhal, a linting tool for the web focused on best practices and flexibility for the end user

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

If I want to see all the third-party requests included with a webpage, I have a few options (that I know of): Look at the code in the and before the tags Use a browser extension like Ghostery to see what’s being served Utilize services like Calibre or SpeedCurve for in-depth analysis Inspect the page—use developer tools (network & sources panel)

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 …

Build easy to manage and scale enterprises solutions with WordPress and the Themosis framework.

wpsnapshots - A project sharing tool for WordPress.

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

Free online tool to strip HTML from any text. Remove all HTML and formatting from your text with a single click.

Get rid of your dirty markup with the free online HTML Cleaner. Easy to compose, edit, format and minify the web code with this online tool. Convert Word, Excel to tidy HTML

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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