Do you like writing git commit messages? Do you like commenting your code? It is super helpful to provide descriptive git commit messages. It’s not just for you but for other developers as well. When you comment the code it’s always good to start with why. When you add your reasons why a piece of […]
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WordPress permalinks define how your site links will look to your visitors and search engines. It’s good to pick a nice structure. To configure them, go to WP-Admin > Settings > Permalinks We recommend this permalink structure This will include the post id to the link and years down the road you can change the
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As a developer, dealing with an IDE that crashes on startup is incredibly frustrating. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular choice, so when it fails to work, productivity can take a hit. Recently, I encountered this issue on Ubuntu, and here’s how I resolved it. The Problem When launching Visual Studio Code, it
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For some reason you may need to disable Visual Studio Code’s hardware acceleration. For example in Ubuntu it’s slow. !Backup! Before you do anything backup the settings. CTRL+SHIFT+P and type runtime you should see this kind of option. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_40 … or you can edit $HOME/.vscode/argv.json file. (Linux) that line is commented. When I uncommented it
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The document root folder is the root folder of your site. For Ubuntu servers it’s in /var/www/html and is owned by www-data user. For other sites that are hosted on the server it’s usually one of these: The document root folder may or may not necessarily be the one where WordPress is installed because it
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xdebug is an awesome debugging extension and it has saved me so much time when developing and also when troubleshooting php scripts and WordPress plugins. When you’re working with xdebug in your PHP development environment and using functions like var_dump() to output some debugging data (logging is better but sometimes you have to do it),
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Introduction In the realm of web development, one challenge that consistently emerges is ensuring seamless interaction between different origins or domains. This is where CORS, or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, steps into the spotlight. As web developers, we often find ourselves in situations where our applications need to request resources from a domain other than the
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