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What is Geolocation? Geolocation is a method used to find the location of your internet device on earth. Imagine you lost your cell phone, and use the find my phone option. The location of your phone will be your device’s last known location. How does Geolocation work? There are two main types of data collection….
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What is Geocoding? Geocoding is a process of transforming a description of a location into a pair of coordinates on the earth’s surface. How does Geocoding work? At a very basic level, your address input will be classified as relative, or absolute. An example of relative data would be the house next door, where an…
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What is Site Kit? You might be like me and wondering what Google Site Kit is. Like many Google products, there seem to be so many cool products out there that no one knows about. Site Kit is no exception. Site Kit brings many of the Google advertising and analytics tools inside of WordPress giving…
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I’m not sure if I’m the only one who has tried to Cache WordPress API endpoint wp-json without a plugin, but I sure didn’t find anything useful out there. I have been working with the WordPress API bringing some blog content into a non WordPress site and noticed that like most things with WordPress the…
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This is part 2 of building a WordPress powered API with Laravel. If you are just joining me now then please read part 1 here to get caught up. In part 2 we are going to beef up our API and look at caching, How to purge the cache and create a few helpers to…
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Making your own API is probably faster and easier than you thought. By using Laravel with WordPress I will guide you through how I was able to make an API in a few hours that has served 40+ websites and dished out more than 2 million events a month. I will go over how to…
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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:…
Adam Patterson
