OpenLampTech issue #76
No domain logic in the database | WordPress snippets plugin | Linux Bourne shell | SQLite in WordPress. You know what time it is. Time for OpenLampTech!
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Recently Published on the Digital Owl’s Prose Developer Blog
I've published a fantastic guest post sharing some great examples of web scraping with PHP this week on the blog
All commentary is by me unless otherwise quoted.
Keeping an Eye on MySQL with Health Checks
The most elegant and structured code won't help an application if the database is the bottleneck. Database performance tuning and configuration is an art (IMO). But tools like Releem are here to help.
How We Built a Newsletter System on Drupal with Mailchimp Integration
Drupal and Mailchimp are 2 superpowers in their own right. The Drop Times of course uses Drupal (seeing as how the content is focused on the open-source CMS) and went with Mailchimp for the newsletter. Learn about all the details here.
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Styling the separator block in five attempts
Here is a great article showing some of the (current) ways you style some WordPress elements (potentially). With the divergence of WordPress theme development moving ever more towards blocks, the days of just using a style.css
file may be drawing to an end.
The Linux Bourne Shell Explained
The Bourne Shell isn't the same thing as the Bash Shell (although they are related). According to this article, the Bourne Shell is the oldest shell still in use on the Linux operating system.
Newly Rewritten WordPress SQLite Database Integration Plugin Needs Testing
Talk about the little engine that could; SQLite is that engine. SQLite is such a powerful and extremely convenient database. This opens up many options in the WordPress space.
How to create your own custom code snippets plugin for WordPress?
With as much WooCommerce as I'm studying and learning, this should be a no-brainer for me (although I haven't done it yet as of publication). Adding many plugins to your site may not be the best idea but one that allows you to add small code snippets might just fit the bill nicely.
Use Databases Without Putting Domain Logic in Them
Whether you work on the front-end, back-end, or both, databases are a whole other monster in application development. This is one of the better articles I've read about the opinionated databases world.
CertifyWP Launches WordPress Management and Design Credential
There isn't any doubt that I personally need all the street creds (and training) I can get on design. 😆
All joking aside, I'm glad to see some semblance of structure for any kind of cert or credential in the wild wild WordPress.
Interesting Tech News and Articles 📰
MariaDB Offers Observability for All MariaDB Server Users Anywhere (04-20-2023)
Ditch your 9-5 job: How Aussies are building e-commerce empires
Hackers Abuse Outdated Eval PHP WordPress Plugin To Deploy Backdoors (04-24-2023)
WooCommerce News and Updates
WooCommerce 7.7 Beta 2 Released
WooCommerce Blocks 10.1.0 Release Notes
Developer Advisory: pnpm 8 update
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