If a typical WordPress page load takes more than one second, chances are there’s something terribly wrong with your site, a theme or a plugin is probably doing something it shouldn’t. Obviously you don’t have time to review every single line in your codebase, so Debug Bar Slow Actions might help you out. Debug Bar Slow Actions is an extension for the popular Debug Bar plugin. It...
Toggle Elements States in Chrome’s Developer Tools
Yeah, I have only discovered this trick today. It was a nightmare debugging :hover (and other) states, and all the magic was hidden behind that tiny little button. Glad I finally found it, and hope you did as well! Did you?
WordPress: Oh Those Actions and Filters!
Reading Joost de Valk’s quick post about Simple WordPress Debugging with a query variable made me think for a while. Really, how often do you come across a white screen with no clue of what’s happening? Very effective indeed, and good note about the security issue, but anyways, what came into my mind is a life-saver for all WordPress themes and plugins developers. I came accross this...
PHP: Logger and Timer Snippets
Hey. I’ve just started writing my simplest classes for a new content management micro-system in php, and I’d like to share some moments with you. These classes will probably be good for php noobs out there struggling in the world of object-oriented programming – go for the basics. The Logger class is just a text logger with simple functionality good for logics debugging. The...