Category Archives: WordPress Development

“Live reloading” for WordPress development

A drawn sunset, repetitive pattern

In web development, the concept of “live reloading” refers to automatically reloading the browser whenever you make changes to your code. This feature significantly improves development efficiency by eliminating the need to manually refresh the browser each time you make a small adjustment, particularly to your CSS or PHP files. For WordPress theme development, live reloading is especially useful, as it allows you to see your changes instantly without interrupting your workflow.

Continue Reading…

Versions and Cache

In development, we all have small tricks to make our lives a little more comfortable. Solutions for issues we’ve learned a long time ago. Something we use without thinking about them anymore. We assume everyone knows these tricks but they don’t. And that’s okay, you probably use some tricks that I don’t know yet. That’s why I think it’s important we share these tricks with each other. Hopefully all our (development) lives will become a little more comfortable.
Continue Reading…

WP Car Manager 1.1 update

A little less than a month ago I released a new WordPress plugin called WP Car Manager which let’s you to manage, list and sell your cars with WordPress. I have to say I was overwhelmed by the amount of response I got, I didn’t expect that at all! A lot of people loved the first version and many of them had feature requests straight away (which is awesome!). So today I launched the first update, version 1.1, which includes a lot of cool new functionality.
Continue Reading…

Amazon S3, Request Signing and PHP versions

Today I’ve released a complete rewrite of the Amazon S3 extension for Download Monitor. Amazon introduced version 4 of their Signature back in 2013 that required a different, more complicated and secure, way of signing the S3 requests. All currently existing regions would support the old (2) and new (4) signature but new regions would only support the new one (4).
Continue Reading…