Many people are currently looking for alternatives to WordPress. This article compares WordPress and October CMS by exposing the important concerns that need to be kept in mind when looking for a suitable CMS for your projects.
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What are some of the most effective ways to grab a user’s attention? What engages them most? Trends come and go, but it’s still important to know which trend best fits your project.
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WordPress is modernizing, allowing us to rethink how to make the most out of newer tools and technologies. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can integrate WordPress with Composer, Packagist, and WPackagist in order to produce better code.
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This article makes a tour of the PHP features newly-available to WordPress, and attempts to suggest how these can be used to produce better software.
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WordPress has a brand new content editor called “Gutenberg” that is going to shape WordPress for years to come. In this article, Andy Bell explains why it’s a movement and not just a new editor.
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When optimizing the speed of our websites from the server side, caching ranks among the most critical tasks to get just right. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz examines an architecture based on self-rendering components and SSR, and analyzes how to implement it for WordPress sites through Gutenberg.
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Overusing inline CSS or JS code, as opposed to serving code through static resources, can harm the site’s performance. In this article, we will learn how to load dynamic code through static files instead, avoiding the drawbacks of too much inline code.
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What does Gutenberg bring to the future of WordPress? In this article, Leonardo Losoviz shares a number of implications of building sites through a component-based architecture (as the concept) and through Gutenberg (as the implementation), including what new functionalities it can deliver and how much better it can integrate with current website development trends.
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Sending many transactional emails at once, if not architected properly, could become a bottleneck for the application and degrade the user experience. Part of the problem is connecting to the SMTP server from within the application, synchronously. In this article we will explore how to send emails from outside the application, asynchronously, using a combination of AWS S3, Lambda, and SES.
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