Konstantin Kovshenin » tips

Sail supports deploying WordPress out of the box, without the need of Git or any other source code management tools. This is great for solo-projects, or simple applications with very small teams....

https://konstantin.blog/2021/sail-push-to-deploy-github-actions/

I’ve never been a fan of IDEs, complex debugging tools with breakpoints, variable watch lists and all that fancy stuff. var_dump() and print_r() have always been my best friends. Recently I was...

https://konstantin.blog/2016/what-the-queries/

Using Child Themes in WordPress is a great way to modify an existing theme, however the CSS @import directive is slower than it has to be, so you should try and avoid it. Here’s why. If it take...

https://konstantin.blog/2014/child-themes-import/

I’ve seen tens, maybe hundreds of different plugins, all with different approaches at creating social profile links in WordPress themes via widgets, menus, shortcodes, and “insert this piece ...

https://konstantin.blog/2014/social-menus-in-wordpress-themes/

Around five months ago, I released Expound – a free magazine theme for WordPress. A few days ago, Expound has passed 100,000 downloads in the WordPress.org themes directory, which I’m super p...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/lessons-learned-from-building-and-supporting-a-fairly-popular-wordpress-theme/

Shortcodes are pretty cool, and the do_shortcode function is pretty neat as it can parse and execute shortcode callbacks from arbitrary strings, but that function invokes a fairly large regex eve...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/dont-do_shortcode/

There are quite a few blog posts, plugins and hacks suggesting to hide the WordPress version number, or hide the overall fact that you’re using WordPress. Don’t do it — it’s pretty useles...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/dont-hide-the-fact-that-youre-using-wordpress/

The get_template_part function is one of the most useful things available to WordPress theme developers. Although mostly used in themes for public, get_template_part is often used in custom WordP...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/get_template_part-within-shortcodes/

I’ve seen many people define an empty $matches variable before using it in preg_match and preg_match_all functions in PHP. I’ve done it myself, and I was quite surprised to learn that you don...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/on-matches-in-preg_match-functions/

Pro tip: wp_cron() runs during the init action at the default priority, i.e. 10. If you’d like things to be available during your cron tasks, make sure you initialize them earlier: the init act...

https://konstantin.blog/2013/tip-wp_cron-runs-during-init/