On June 13, Cloudflare had a bad day. And when Cloudflare has a bad day, a surprisingly large chunk of the internet decides to lie down and rethink its life choices – **including sites that aren’t even on Cloudflare**. This…
The WordPress VIP platform is a hosting environment, here the sites should not be down because of performance for even a minute, the WordPress VIP follows strict coding practices and efficient coding standards. Let’s start with the best practices. Dev…
WordPress VIP Go Platform WordPress VIP Go is basically a hosting platform provided at WPVIP.com, this platform is much more efficient and scalable for the clients and is very performance driven. The difference in installing a VIP Go platform is…
PHP Unit Testing with WordPress To create the unit test files in wordpress, we can use the scaffold command from the wp cli. First we have to navigate to our plugin folder for which we want to write the test…
PHP Unit Testing What is unit testing?A: Unit testing ensures that whatever code we have written is working as expected, this saves time for the developer to manually test the code again and again, instead of it we can just…
Optimizing Optimize Large Contentful Paint (LCP) To optimize LCP some steps can be followed Fixing server response times One common reason can be the server response time, the time the server takes to respond to our request once the URL…
Core Web Vitals The core web vitals as the name suggests are the parameters which specify the health of our site [ health -> judgement of a thing, how much it is in good condition ]. Now this is related…
REVISION STARTS WordPress Plugin Development The basic plugin format -> To create a plugin we must add a folder or a php file inside the wp-content/plugins directory We must name the file inside the plugins folder same as the folder-name…
Formatting Toolbar API The formatting toolbar API allows us to add custom text formatting functions to the gutenberg block editor, for example when we select a string and use the block toolbar to strikethrough it this is called formatting, now…
Widgets Before the gutenberg blocks, the widgets used to be the old classic widgets -> created with the extending Widget_API via PHP. Now after the blocks -> For widgets an instance of block is stored and referred to the widgets…
Block API Reference Styles Now there can be instances where we want to modify the style of the default blocks of the gutenberg editor, now to do that we have to add custom classes to the block -> is there…
Nested blocks In WordPress, we allow block inside block -> nested blocks, for example our group block or the column blocks. Now to add this functionality to our custom blocks in WordPress we can use the Nested blocks concept in…