May 11, 2024 — In this lesson, you’ll learn about some tools available to test your code for security vulnerabilities, and a brief introduction on how to use them.

You will also learn where to find more information about critical security risks to web applications.

May 11, 2024 — A more “real world” example of fixing common vulnerabilities, covering SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Cross-site Request Forgery, Broken Access Control, and Open Redirects

May 11, 2024 — A short introduction to developing with a security mindset, covering the most common principles to consider when writing code.

May 2, 2024 — Studio is a brand new local WordPress development environment built by the folks at WordPress.com. Running WP Playground under the hood, it provides a zero config local WordPress development environment that’s blazingly fast. Join me as I test out this new environment, learn how it works, and what’s possible out of the box.

April 25, 2024 — Join me as I dive deeply into WordPress Playground and all its different permutations, to see what they are capable of.

This week I am looking into the WordPress Playground Visual Code Studio extension, and testing out all the different modes, “wordpress”, “plugin/theme”, and “wordpress-develop”.

April 7, 2024 — The WordPress REST API provides an interface for fetching, adding, updating, and deleting data from a WordPress site in a uniform way.

While the schema for the data types that are available in the REST API is quite extensive, there may be times when you need to store additional data that is not part of the core schema.

In this lesson, you will learn about two methods of adding fields to your REST API requests, either by enabling custom fields in the REST API route, or by making custom fields available as top-level fields.

April 7, 2024 — While the WP REST API is commonly used to fetch data from WordPress, it can also be used to perform other actions.

The REST API also allows you to create, update, and delete various WordPress data types.

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the WP REST API schema, methods to authenticate a WP REST API request, tools to test WP REST API requests, as well as a couple of ways to add, edit or delete data via the WP REST API.

April 7, 2024 — The WordPress REST API provides a uniform interface for interacting with the data in a WordPress site.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the WP REST API to fetch data from your WordPress site.

You’ll discover three internal options for making REST API requests, and then use them to perform a GET request to fetch some public custom post type data.

April 7, 2024 — When you’re developing for WordPress, there are a number of APIs that you can use to interact with your site data. One of the most important of these is the REST API.

This lesson serves as an introduction to the WordPress REST API.

You will learn what the REST API is, as well as some key REST API concepts like routes, endpoints and global parameters, through a series of example requests you can perform in a browser.

April 4, 2024 — Join me as I dive deeply into WordPress Playground and all its different permutations, to see what they are capable of.

This week I am looking into wp-now, to see whether I could replace my own custom local development environment with a version of WordPress Playground.