It’s really up to you. As a developer, I prefer working locally but if you do not develop but only add/remove/update themes and plugins, then a subdomain can be great. This way, you can freely break your website without disturbing anyone. Nowadays, lots of hosts providers are offering to create staging website in one click. … Read more
How to automatically load Google Fonts on pages only as they’re used?
I’ll try to outline the fundamental steps — your mileage might vary, depending on your actual setup. I tend to manage WordPress deployments in an automated manner (e.g. Ansible), so I have a preference for command-line scripts and config files. Define the home and site url in the wp-config.php file of your production environment (the … Read more
Improving the SEO of a WordPress website and increasing traffic to the site can be achieved through a variety of methods, including: Optimizing content: Create high-quality, unique, and relevant content that includes keywords and meta descriptions. Use of Keyword-rich permalinks: Make sure that your permalinks are keyword-rich, rather than using the default number-based permalinks. Optimize … Read more
How to code a wordpress page properly? Dashboard or unique Theme files or alternative?
I’m going to go with Plan B, as above. The reason being that I don’t want the price being potentially manipulated by using JS in the browser. Also, I have no idea how to set the price with JS from the browser! The plan is have a cron job periodically run a script which loops … Read more
You may want to check this: How do I query all posts of one type across my multisite installation? Just change post to media and you’ll be fine.
You need to learn how WP is ‘built’ and functions. An understanding of that will help immensely. Start at the Codex https://codex.wordpress.org/ . Lots of information about everything WP. And there are lots of googles/bings/ducks about creating plugins. Start with a simple plugin that changes a minor thing (like changing the ‘Howdy’ to ‘Welcome’ on … Read more
I assume that each php file contains the content of a page. It depends a lot on how your content is written in that php page, you should make another php script, go trough all files in that directory. <?php if ($handle = opendir(‘/path/to/files’)) { echo “Directory handle: $handle\n”; echo “Entries:\n”; /* This is the … Read more
It would be bad practice to have two sites running off the same database. This is especially true if you were to perform plugin / core updates on one or the other. You would be much better off using something like migrate-db (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/) to perform a migration. The maintainers of migrate db are also working … Read more