Earlier this year, Sal Ferrarello started posting blog posts on his site that he qualifies as being in “draft” status. The point of posting these is that they can still prove useful to himself and others, even if they’re not yet as refined as he would like them to be. You can read his post [more…]
Plugin and Theme Development with WordPress Trunk
In summary, I’ve used custom config files and a custom Valet driver to enable running a development site using the Trunk version of WordPress. Feel free to skip down to the “Folder Structure” and “Custom Files” sections below if you don’t need any background on why this fancy setup is needed. Background There have been [more…]
Composer and Comcast
Today I was working with Composer for the Query Monitor plugin, and like I normally do I went to run “composer install”. Except this time, I got some unexpected results: composer install Loading composer repositories with package information The “https://packagist.org/packages.json” file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Operation timed out Retrying with degraded mode, [more…]