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• Creating a WordPress Events Plugin and Ordering the Events
  Creating a WordPress plugin is pretty easy. What's not always easy is figuring out what data you need and how you're going to manage and manipulate that data. So if you're interested in how I initially messed that up and then found an elegant solution, read on!
• Create an Environment Variable Handler from Scratch
  Learn how to create a basic WordPress/PHP environment variable handler from scratch.
• PHP Generator Functions Are Amazing
  Lately I've been working on a project for the UConn admissions office. Part of the project was to create a WordPress plugin that would take a CSV file and read the rows into the database on a schedule. Which is easy enough right? The problem was that there were over 16,000 rows to insert....
• Use Lando Build Steps for a Custom WordPress Development Environment
  Lando is a great local development tool for a wide variety of projects. In this post, I talk about how to use its build step commands to set up a custom WordPress/composer development environment.
• Managing Webpack Vendor Chunks and WordPress
  It may be old news to some, but today I took a deep(er) dive into webpack optimization. Here I'll describe how I took a WordPress plugin's main app bundle down from 440kb to 15.5kb. Then I show how I enqueued the hashed file names with a custom loader class.
• Creating a Martial Arts Training App Part 3 - Relay Pagination with Cursors, Edges, and Nodes
  In part 1 of this series, I described how to create a prisma model for a user and then a type definition for apollo server to access that user on the database. In this post, I get into relay style pagination with cursors.
• Creating a Martial Arts Training App Part 2 - User Creation/Log In
  Come learn how to implement JWT authentication with: apollo server, httpOnly cookies, and prisma. But first, I'll make a brief detour into the apollo server context.
• Creating a Martial Arts Training App Part 1 - Set Up
  I'm working on a martial arts training app and journaling the process. In this post, I get into how I set up my app to use: NextJS, prisma JS, and Apollo Server.
• Use React Hooks to Create a Toggle
  A quick example of how I learned about the `useState` and `useEffect` hooks to build a toggle menu component.
• Git! Move!
  Every once in a while, we all have to rename a file in a git repo. Find out about the `git mv` command and how it can help keep your commits clearer and cleaner.