Introduction This article is a complete, detailed tutorial on how to build a robust WordPress importer that reads data from JSON, validates it, and turns it into posts (or custom post types), taxonomies, attachments and metadata using best practices in security, performance and error handling. The article includes multiple implementation approaches, a production-ready importer class, […]
Introduction This article is a complete, detailed tutorial showing how to create a JSON exporter for custom content in WordPress using PHP. You will find practical code examples (for a REST endpoint, an admin export link, and a WP-CLI command), full explanations of options and edge cases, performance and security recommendations, and examples for exporting […]
Introduction This article is a complete, production-ready guide to adding correct CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) headers to the WordPress REST API using PHP. It explains the required headers, safe defaults, how to handle preflight (OPTIONS) requests, how to do this inside themes or plugins, how to do it server-side (nginx / Apache), and how to […]
Introduction This article is a comprehensive, ready-to-publish tutorial on how to register custom health checks in WordPress Site Health using PHP. It covers the underlying API, exact code examples you can drop in a plugin (or functions.php), the difference between synchronous (direct) and asynchronous checks, return structure expected by WordPress, best practices, debugging and testing, […]
Introduction This tutorial shows how to build a Theme Performance Inspector for WordPress using PHP. The inspector gathers key runtime metrics (total page time, PHP execution time, database query counts/times, memory usage, included files, enqueued assets, and outgoing HTTP requests) and renders a lightweight debug panel in the page footer / admin bar for fast […]
Introduction This article explains, in exhaustive detail, how to add useful keyboard hotkeys to the WordPress editor using JavaScript. It covers both editors currently in use—the Classic Editor (TinyMCE) and the Block Editor (Gutenberg)—and gives implementation options, best practices, PHP enqueue examples, multiple concrete JS snippets, accessibility considerations, conflicts to watch out for, and steps […]
Introduction — Why internationalize Gutenberg blocks with @wordpress/i18n If you build blocks for the WordPress editor (Gutenberg) and want them to work for non-English sites, you must internationalize (i18n) the strings in your block JavaScript. The official JavaScript i18n library for WordPress is @wordpress/i18n. It provides the same kinds of translation functions available in PHP […]
Introduction This tutorial explains, in full detail, how to add a simple language selector to a WordPress theme, persist the users language choice in the browser using JavaScript, and make that choice available to the server for subsequent requests. The solution covers accessible markup, CSS for basic styling, a robust JavaScript persistence strategy (localStorage cookie), […]
Introduction Detecting ad blockers and showing a respectful notice to users is a common need for WordPress publishers who rely on ad revenue. The goal: detect when an ad blocker is likely active and then show a lightweight, accessible, non-intrusive message explaining the impact of ad blocking and giving an easy option to dismiss the […]
Overview This tutorial explains, step by step and in full detail, how to build a favorites (bookmark / wishlist) system for WordPress that works for guest visitors using browser cookies. The system will: Let guests (not signed in) add/remove posts to a favorites list. Store favorites in a cookie on the client (so it persists […]
