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How many times have we hit our heads against the wall trying to edit a WordPress NavWalker? This class, based on the abstract Walker class, is impractical, and editing menus exactly the way you want is usually a complicated task. To avoid this, we are going to use a Composer package that allows much greater […]
We are increasingly used to seeing complex, dynamic, and reactive interfaces. CMS platforms like WordPress make building these types of interfaces a bit harder with the tools they provide by default. This led to the emergence of the Headless CMS concept. In other words, using only the CMS content management tools and consuming an API […]
In the first post of the series, we already saw how to create a local Roots project from scratch. Another major strength of Roots, and Trellis in particular, is that it allows us to install an optimized WordPress server using just a few commands. If you want more control over the server, DigitalOcean offers droplets […]
Now that you understand how Docker works and some of the tools it provides, it’s time to put everything into practice. To do that, we’re going to create a Laravel project and run it using Docker. Project analysis Whenever we start a project, we need to think about which tools we’ll initially need in order […]
While most projects will likely use Composer 2, there are times when you need Composer 1 to make changes to an older project that was originally built using Composer 1. The most common way to handle this is by switching versions using an update. To switch to Composer 1: composer self-update --1. To switch to […]
It works locally. It works in staging. Which version are you using? Did you install service X? These are some of the questions and comments we usually hear within the team when everyone sets up their environment independently, and as a result, we all end up with different environments. I’m sure that if you have […]
