Tutorials

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January 9, 2022

Setting up WordPress & WooCommerce with Composer

This is part 1 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. This article focuses on the initial project setup of your Wordpress & Woocommerce store. Your main benefit of creating your project structure this way is that you will be able to update Wordpress, all of its Plugins and Themes with a single command in your Terminal. It's faster, more simple and gives you full control over each major and minor version in use. You will be able to revert a single plugin, keep track of core modifications you make and take advantage of the whole Packagist and WPackagist universe in your Wordpress & WooCommerce store.

September 25, 2022

Continuous Deployments with Github Actions for WordPress & WooCommerce

This is part 4 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. This article shows you how to get started with automated Wordpress Deployments via GitHub Actions.

January 7, 2022

How to replace the WordPress frontend with Twig, FastRoute and Dice

I consider this guide an experiment, a test to see if its possible to replace the Wordpress frontend entirely. Getting rid of Wordpress frontend means getting rid of overhead like database requests, bad plugin code. Instead we get performant, clean templates and have more control over the frontend. This is a rather extreme step with downsides. You loose all the frontend logic, plugins, search result pages, category pages, archive and so on – you loose flexibility, have to rebuild all of the thinngs just mentioned from scratch. Still this might be worth it, if you love Twig, and want to bring it's benefits into the Wordpress cosmos. In this article I outline what you need to get started.

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