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First, what is Composer and what is a Package? Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Those Dependencies are what we call Packages that don’t have to be but are usually stored on Packagist. Making a private Composer Package is really simple, but the first thing that you need to make a new repo for…
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I do all of my Laravel and WordPress locally using MAMP. I like to keep my development process as simple as possible and MAMP lets me do just that. But sometimes you need just a little bit more than what comes out of the box. Caching is an important part of that development cycle and…
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As with the Simple Cachebuster for Laravel I found myself needing a way to invalidate a WordPress sites assets. So as I did before, I opted to add a task to my gulpfile.js that will generate a file in the root of the site for me. /wp-cache-buster.php that simply contains a timestamp. The difference with…
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When managing multiple Laravel projects that share common functionality, private Composer packages can be an excellent way to maintain shared code. This guide will show you how to set up and use private Composer packages efficiently in your local development workflow, particularly when working with Laravel applications. The Challenge I maintain two large projects that…
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Axe is a simple bare bone WordPress starter theme structure. It’s a theme meant to be a starting point to get you set up and running as fast as possible. My workflow might not be very orthodox but I typically review the design, Setup my Custom post types using Custom Post Type UI and setup…
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Updated February 2025, removing the deprecated authentication method. Developing packages for use with laravel is reasonably straightforward. But we don’t always want to make our code publicly available on Packagist. Adding a custom repository to your composer.json file will allow us to pull code straight from your Github account rather than Packagist. It’s common practice…
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After setting up a fresh install of WordPress on my new Digital Ocean box with PHP 7.0 I had a few issues reconnecting my Jetpack accounts. I got the error XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only and after doing some research found out it’s caused by a missing PHP extension for XML that handles Dom…
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Calling wp_nav_menu() directly has its place, but typically your walker function that might generate a Bootstrap compatible main menu might not be ideal for a footer, location selection, or sidebar link list. Using wp_get_nav_menu_items() will give us access to every part of the menu object. Title, Link, Class name, and window location. Don’t forget to…
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Caching busting with Laravel is super simple. It comes with something called Mix ( or Elixer ) that handles front-end processing. Unfortunately, my front-end requirements have some specific needs that prevent me from taking advantage of Mix. The site uses Docker and is also behind a proxy cache so there wasn’t a simple way that…
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I feel like workflows have gone out of control and become overly complex. I am always looking for ways to simplify my workflow, not just because I don’t need the complexity but because I work on many projects at once and in a team. I will use an IDE for my editor, Sorry sublime you don’t…
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Events I tried a couple of existing plugin solutions most did 95% of what I needed and the other 5% was next to impossible to force. After wasting days I decided I would write my own, what follows is an overview of Tentacle event API. Contact me if you have any questions. Registering an event:…
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I had kids and things got busy, and I started to shoot a lot less with my DLSR. I still shoot from time to time. But I now have a multi-year backlog of photos to process. I still get out and about and love to take photos. I just do it whit my LG G4 rather…
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Starting a new project can be exciting until you create your new project. Now sit back and wait a few minutes. Rerunning the first command with Prestissimo dropped my install time from about 75 seconds to around 21 seconds.
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At work, I needed a fast and flexible way to present structured data that can be consumed by Python. This was done using WordPress leveraging Custom Post Types and Advanced Custom Fields. Simply put. WordPress is the admin interface. To present the data I chose to use Laravel 5.0 and It took about an hour…
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