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Plugin Directory Tags

• Do use <= 12 tags
• Do remove any ‘common misspellings’ from your tag list
• Do remove duplicate tags
• Do use any word, except wordpress or wp
• Do use tags that clearly identify what your plugin is
• Do optimise other parts of the readme.txt
• Don’t use tags that don’t apply, including competitors' tags
• Don’t list everything under the sun related to your plugin

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Eliminate render-blocking CSS

Try to ... inline the critical portions of those resources directly in the HTML.

One of the files is Google Fonts.

Inline Google Fonts API CSS

• Detects the browser
• Inlines the @font-face font loading

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Organising theme functionality

Compartmentalization

How do you organize your plugins and themes code?

wp-content/plugins only contains third-party plugins, no code in here is modified, and the site should not be deadlined by any of these plugins being disabled / removed.

wp-content/themes should contain the code related to presentation of the front-end. The trick is not not overload the theme (functions.php and other theme-related files) with code not directly related to presentation. >

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Wix uptime monitoring

Nasty surprises

Her Wix site had just gone down. But she didn't realise this until she tried to log in to fix the Facebook problem and came face to face with Wix' error page.

"These Facebook posts look so unprofessional!", she cried. "Why didn't Wix tell me my site had gone down??".

As the owner of a small business, she didn't want to be the last one to know that her marketing site and shop were offline.

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Dropbox vs Google Drive

Copying files to Drive

I know that this is going to be time consuming and prone to human error, so I use a paid service (MultSync) to sync the drives.

I choose the option to move files from Dropbox to Google Drive.

The files seem to copy over ok, but nothing is moved off the Dropbox drive.

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Setting up Xdebug

https://xdebug.org

MAMP Pro 5.1.1

Default version > 7.0.31 Languages > PHP > Extensions > Xdebug (Debugger) > Check

Check settings:

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Symlink vs Alias

Created: 2017.07.11

Alias

Aliases are useful for organising the MacOS filesystem.

In Mac OS System 7 and later, an alias is a small file that represents another object in a local, remote, or removable1 file system. It is similar to the Unix symbolic link, but with the added benefit of working even if the target file moves to another location on the same disk - Alias (Mac OS)

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Automate deployments from a Bitbucket repository to Sitehost using Rsync

Created: 2019.08.08

1. Generate a Bitbucket SSH key

This will be used to authorise interactions with the Sitehost server.

1. Open repository in Bitbucket
2. Scroll down to Pipelines, then click SSH keys

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Shields

Created 2017.10.31

Shields are small badges that typically below the project heading in Github README.md files:

[![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPLv2-blue.svg)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation/develop/LICENSE.md)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation)
[![Scrutinizer Code Quality](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation/badges/quality-score.png?b=develop)](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation/?branch=develop)

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PHP 7

Created: 2017.10.11

Released in December 2015, PHP 7 is the version following PHP 5.6 (PHP 6 was an experimental project that didn't make it into production).

Features:

• Zend Engine II replaced with Zend PHPNG (Next Generation), which can make twice as many requests per second
• Various programming features