Category: Geekery

WP Performance Profiler | A plugin that detects performance issues.

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The crew at interconnect/it makes some quality stuff, so I’m pretty excited to try this out.

Options in the WordPress Theme Customizer | Tom McFarlin | Tom McFarlin

The WordPress Theme Customizer is one of the most innovative features that has been recently added to WordPress. Unfortunately, we’re abusing it.

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In reality we’re taking the same problem of providing too many options and migrating them from the Dashboard to the WordPress Theme Customizer.

Bummer.

Tom McFarlin nails it once again.

GitHub – WP-API/node-wpapi: An isomorphic JavaScript client for the WordPress REST API

An isomorphic JavaScript client for the WordPress REST API – GitHub – WP-API/node-wpapi: An isomorphic JavaScript client for the WordPress REST API

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Speaking of JavaScript, here’s a Node.js-based client for the JSON REST API that’ll eventually make its way into WordPress core.

Is JavaScript taking over WordPress? – Nelio Software

Some data and statistics showing the increasing presence of JavaScript code in WordPress. See the evolution of Javascript in WordPress through time.

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Unless something totally crazy happens, WordPress is going to be written in PHP for the foreseeable future. However, the more that core turns into an API endpoint for all the JavaScript that’s being added to it, the less beholden the project has to be to PHP.

So maybe you should think about buying a JavaScript book or something.

Or don’t. It’s your fucking livelihood.

Hashcash.IO – Make Bots Work For You

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It’s nice that someone is working on an alternative to the Akismet anti-spam plugin monopoly.

With that being said, I saw a server load quadruple [from 4 to 16] in under 3 minutes after enabling the plugin on a friend’s site. It was right in the middle of being mercilessly hammered by spammers, but I don’t see how that should matter. Especially when their whole angle involves making a user’s browser solve a math problem.

Maybe they still have a little more work to do.

WordPress on NGINX + HHVM with Heroku Buildpacks – xyu.io

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This is tempting. Extremely tempting.

Perhaps I should dedicate some time to playing with this over the long holiday weekend.

php.internals: phpng: Refactored PHP Engine with Big Performance I mprovement

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It’s nice to see that the PHP team isn’t taking HHVM lying down. We have to wait for PHP 5.7 to get PHPNG and it’s 20% performance increase though.

If you’re the type who runs his/her own server, there are test build instructions. So maybe you don’t have to wait. But I wouldn’t use this in production. Not yet, anyway.

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor – Nacin

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Required reading from Nacin for any aspiring WordPress core contributor.

Debug Bar Slow Actions – Konstantin Kovshenin

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Debug Bar Slow Actions is an extension for the popular Debug Bar plugin. It adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request.

Konstantin has done a great job with this. If you do any amount of site troubleshooting & optimizing, this is worth an install.