Questions tagged [wordpress]
open source content management system running on PHP and MySQL, and often used as a blog engine.
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Best practice for integrating UI and dynamic user-specific content using a Flask app
I am building a website that uses a recommendation system. Users submit a form which is sent to the backend for the recommendation logic calculation; the recommendation response is sent back to the ...
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Adapter pattern for formatting third party API responses
I've been refactoring some of my procedural code to OOP, and I'm wondering if using the adapter pattern is overkill in this case.
Basically, I created a Order class. All class properties are a field ...
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Sould I .gitignore build output for a WordPress plugin?
Our builds are not binary by nature of WordPress PHP/JS, merely combined and minified. But they can be re-created by any developer easily and I feel like they shouldn't be version controlled but I ...
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Wordpress and git, (using WPE), how do you incorporate database changes into the workflow?
We use WordPressEngine and want to have multiple developers and multiple branches using git.
One challenge is how do we incorporate the database into the workflow? Should we take a sql dump and ...
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What're the necessary considerations when developing Cron Jobs (Scheduled Tasks)
I'm working on a website that has a section that shows the company's stock details and investor-related data. This data is retrieved through scheduled SOAP API calls.
I created two scheduled tasks ...
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Working On Remote Errors in a Variety of Environments Without FTP or SSH Access
BACKGROUND: I've been developing in PHP for two years - self taught, and beyond the most basic editing, really just a year and a half - but my experience is limited to a small number of environments. ...
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When dealing with user-generated content, is it always better to just use a CMS like WordPress?
I am a web developer who is planning to build a web application which requires user-generated input, with that input presented somewhat like a blog in the sense that there is an article with pictures, ...
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Realizing pagination for merged array from multiple data sources (APIs)
I'm improving a WordPress theme with PHP. The theme contains a gallery section which loads data from the Flickr API.
Now the client wants to display Flickr galleries as well as "local" galleries ...
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What Type of Report or Documentation to Expect from my Programmers
First, I am not a programmer nor do I have any programming experience. I am an entrepreneur that had a website idea and hired programmers to custom build it. It has been going on for the last one year ...
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Can someone else copyright my wordpress plugin if I don't own any copyright for it?
Assuming I have a plugin hosted on wordpress.org, can someone else just take my plugin and copyright it?
Can they take the name of my plugin and copyright or trademark it (assuming I do not have it ...
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Required clarification about GPL licence for creating extensions of GPL software
I asked a question and received quite good answers. I read all answers and other sources about my question.
I concluded that if I write my code and distribute it to my clients for a free under my own ...
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Is a development environment required for small projects? [closed]
I won a bid on Elance and was had a request to fix some css and html issues with a WordPress site.
How do I make changes to the document without working on the live site? Do you set up a development ...
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LIcense Issues Of Publishing A WordPress Theme, Built With Roots Theme, At Themeforest
I want to develop a WordPress theme using Roots theme framework and then sell it on themeforest.net.
Roots theme license allows me to sell the theme as per its founder's discussion with some guy on ...
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How can I give my client "full access" to their PHP application's MySQL database?
I am building a PHP application for a client and I'm seriously considering WordPress or a simple framework that will allow me to quickly build out features like forums, etc.
However, the client is ...
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CTO has left — codebase is a huge kludge, any advice on how to manage/handle/damage control? [closed]
I began work at a company 2 months ago as a PHP developer. I stepped in to somewhat of a kludge, but I've yet to find a company that isn't... The development stable is currently two developers (...
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When writing tests for a WordPress plugin, should i run them inside WordPress or in a normal browser?
I have started using BDD for a WordPress plugin i'm working on and i'm rewriting the js codebase to do tests. I've encountered a few problems but i'm going steady now, i was wondering if i had the ...
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Depend on built technology, or build your own [duplicate]
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How to decide between using an existing eCommerce solution and building your own?
I am starting a ecomm business and my site idea is pretty similar in functionality to ETSY. I ...
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Should I build my own CMS or rely on a pre-built one? [closed]
Related: As a beginning programmer, should I favor building my own libraries over using 3rd-party libraries?
As an intermediate to advanced level PHP web-developer and a young one at that (15yrs.), ...
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Why do Wordpress & Drupal serialize the DB data?
I've recently went through manually editing some tables on a Wordpress website.
I've also had some experience with database internationalization so I know that serializing is not the best (IMO) ...
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