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How to add responsive images to Advanced Custom Fields in WordPress

Julia — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:49:09 +0000

Advanced Custom Fields is a popular plugin when developing for WordPress. And sometimes it requires a little more than just adding a title or some content on pages and posts. My case was to allow admin users to add or customize images. Those images should be responsive with all required attributes (to pass Google Page […]

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WordPress: how to get number of queries

Julia — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:34:20 +0000

Page load time has been a hot topic for website improvement. Slow sites kill conversion. When you need to define how performant your code is, one of metric to check is the number of queries to the database. The first thing to start with is enabling SAVEQUERIES in your wp-config.php file: With this setting all queries will […]

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WP_Query and WordPress site speed loading

Julia — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:43:25 +0000

You can find so many articles online titled “How to Optimize your website powered by WordPress”. I’d like, however, show you one more advanced solution how a developer can optimize a theme. I usually make my own queries using the WP_Query class. For example, you may want to get the 6 latest posts and display them on […]

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WordPress pagination with paginate_links: customization

Julia — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:26:39 +0000

The problem: the function paginate_links($arg = ” ); creates paginated link list which looks like: *Here is my code: Now I’d like to stylish my pagination to, say, typical Bootstrap look & feel. In other words, instead of unordered list with class named ‘page-numbers‘ should be list with class ‘pagination‘ (or any you want). Here […]

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Pagination and a custom post type wp_query

Julia — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:46:09 +0000

Do you need to display the posts with pagination without any plugin? I’ll show you how. WP_Query uses public query variables to construct the main query according to the page being requested. *To see all the public query variables, print this: The function get_query_var() is used to get the values from those public query variables (this case […]

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