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WordPress will use curl if available and it is first transport choice, that is preferable to other supported methods of performing HTTP requests. There is plenty written on merits of using curl and that’s not really specific to WordPress. From the top of my head I’ve read Requiring cURL in Your PHP Library recently.

WordPress HTTPS – ‘… better to use HTTP for installation …’

Turn twitter-urls into list timelines?

If the feed from twitter is from a particular URL then it is possible to embed the profile tweeting. But apart from that it is literally impossible to do that.

couldn’t connect to host – wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron

You should open a support ticket with your host, as it’s probably related to their environment. From the error, it sounds to me like they might be blocking curl in their environment, probably for security reasons. They may be able to unblock it, or you may need to find an alternative.

CSS/JS is not working in multi lang installation

Enqueue the files like they should be enqueued and HTTP(S) won’t be a problem. You can enqueue files properly witht he following example code /** * Enqueue scripts * * @param string $handle Script name * @param string $src Script url * @param array $deps (optional) Array of script names on which this script depends … Read more

throttle/limit a logged in user’s http requests to specific page on a per day basis

First, check for get_current_user_id. Then create a log of visits by adding information to a user’s metadata with update_user_meta & get_user_meta. On every page hit that you care about you can run a function to determine rate/limit of usage per user. If they break the rules, you can redirect to a page that doesn’t contain … Read more

Accessing content from third party as native posts in WordPress

Simple answer is “no”. Whatever the API you might use it will be too slow to return a page in a timely manner, unless you have the other HTTP server on your LAN, in which case you should just access its DB directly. What you can do is cache the “external” content in your DB … Read more

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Is it safe to use PUT and DELETE requests

Any idea on how to fix this error when forcing SSL on a certain page?

Get full page HTML for a non-public WordPress page

Does WordPress perform better with curl installed?