Tag: WordPress

We recently had a virtual chat over coffee with our friends at FusionAuth to talk about their innovative secure access management tool and how it integrates with WordPress. What is FusionAuth? FusionAuth is a secure access management system. It helps businesses manage users, authentication and… Read More

In what has been a rather surreal year for everyone across the globe. It’s safe to say our attention has been pre-occupied. However, whilst we were all setting up our home-based makeshift offices, WordPress has been quietly carrying on uninterrupted. Following the highly anticipated, yet disruptive, PHP… Read More

WordPress is great but working with it can be cumbersome for developers. Twig and Timber are some tools we use to make it easier. The default templating system is basic PHP template calls that output HTML, giving us complete freedom to do what we want, how… Read More

At the start of October I had the great privilege of attending and speaking at WordCamp Belfast WordCamp Belfast was the first WordCamp ever organised in Northern Ireland and it was a sheer delight. It was great spending time in the fine city of Belfast… Read More

What is dependency management? Most software and web development projects are broken into components that rely on each other for the finished product to work properly, this may include 3rd party libraries and code. In WordPress, this is likely to be plugins or themes you are using for the… Read More

Have you ever slaved over a website? Sweating every line or code and pixel to get it perfect, rushing for that deadline only to deploy it to your server and having nothing happen? Vagrant can help us stop that happening to us again. We’ve all been… Read More

Unit Testing is a fantastic tool in the modern day web developer’s arsenal. The ability to run a defined group of tests every time to make a change to your code base will save you hours squashing bugs and wondering where they came from. Unit testing has been… Read More

Version control is a system that records changes to source code over time. Giving you a log of who changed what, when, and the ability to go back to any defined point in time. You can make massive changes to your source code and then, when you’re… Read More

WordPress really is a brilliant way to have a fully functioning website up & running within minutes. According to Research by W3Techs, it powers more than 23 percent of all sites on the web and more than 60 million sites rely on it. With such wide-reaching popularity,… Read More