Windows devs — do you use a package manager like Chocolatey or Scoop to install your tools and software?
Many students of the Modern WordPress Fast Track course are on Windows and I want to make sure my recommendations work across all OSes.
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Screenshot from https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net which you can also get from the App Store to support the development of the utility!
Wow, that's all taken up by the dynamic wallpaper videos 😅
Here is an interesting playground plugin for anyone running WP multisite https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisyde/
1. Centralized plugin activation/deactivation without going to each site.
2. Show the timestamp of the last login for each user on the network.
Is there a WordPress plugin that shows a confirmation prompt when updating a published post?
Attached is what I had in mind based on the dialog used by the full side editor when making site-wide changes.
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You can still get access to the course with a 30% discount during June! https://wpshout.com/wordpress-development-course/
The first module of the Modern WordPress Fast Track course is now live!
It covers the web fundamentals from the perspective of a full-stack WordPress developer — everything from IP packets and TCP to DNS and HTTP!
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This kind of deep and hands-on insight is exactly what we cover in the Modern WordPress Fast Track course.
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New video: Pealing the four layers 🧅 of WordPress caching:
🌍 Runtime object cache stores data just for the current request.
🪨 Persistent object cache shares cached results across requests.
🗂️ Advanced cache serves full HTML via PHP.
🚀 Full-page cache skips WordPress entirely.
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My latest guide on WordPress emails explains how it all works:
✅ How wp_mail() really works
✅ Setting headers, SMTP, and DKIM correctly
✅ Using filters like phpmailer_init to lock it all in
👉 Read the guide: https://wpelevator.com/guides/wordpress-emails/
Most WordPress sites are failing silently at email delivery.
Emails sent by wp_mail() get flagged, dropped, or bounced, and most devs never notice until it breaks something critical.
❌ Password reset links that go to the wrong site
❌ SPF and DMARC misalignment
❌ Invalid Return-Path headers
TIL: PHPUnit no longer supports test filenames being different from the test class names (i.e. `class-` prefix used by WP) since version 9.
Why enforce this? I assume reflection is still used for resolving the actual class names so there is no practical need for them to match.
Created a single markdown file (6.5MB) with all of WordPress developer handbooks which you can add to your project for AI context.
Get it from here: https://gist.github.com/kasparsd/5514c8fbc161a584b472ceb0bef2f27d
Interestingly, AI can also help identify gaps in the documentation and provide some really insightful tips for improving it.
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In this short video I'll show you how modern browsers can supercharge your WordPress development workflow.
📺 Watch episode 1 now (runtime: 7 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpOiThaaRAo
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As part of the Modern WordPress Fast Track course launch, I’m sending out weekly tips and tricks to all subscribers of our FREE newsletter.
We’re kicking things off with a fun little journey through the quirky, chaotic, and clever history of web browsers — from the early days of WorldWideWeb (the actual name of the first web browser) to the performance-focused powerhouses we use today like Chrome and Firefox.
Did you know that web browsers used to include authoring tools for creating websites? A true WYSIWYG experience before even FrontPage and Dreamweaver existed.
Now we can’t even view source on mobile 😅
Luckily we still have very powerful developer tools bundled with the browsers — from inspector (remember Firebug?) to network monitoring and even performance analysis.
Should MCP servers have access to system shell? 🤔
Here is a bare-bones MCP server written in PHP being used in VS Code over SSE to get DNS records using dig.
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Here is the relevant issue for adding this to the HTML spec https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6636 and a guide from Google on how to implement now https://web.dev/articles/lazy-loading-video