wordpress
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Bluebird
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2 min read
I’ve released a new version of Handywriter today, now featuring recent Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities. The results are quite impressive. Here is the famous “Bluebird” poem by Charles Bukowski. (Maybe next time, it will sing “Famous Blue Raincoat” by L.Cohen?)
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Installing WordPress with TiDB
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3 min read
I took a stab at testing TiDB with WordPress today, but since the setup went past the famous five-minute mark, I’ve decided to jot down a note for myself and those who try to use TiDB with WordPress.
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Happy 20th birthday WordPress!
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1 min read
Happy 20th birthday, WordPress. We’ve known each other since around 2008, and I’ve been contributing in some way since 2011. Even though my contributions are often tiny, like a drop in the ocean, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to 43% of the web.
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WordPress as a NoCode Platform
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4 min read
I launched NoCodeWP this week and have been sharing some random thoughts on no-code, WordPress, and other topics.
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A Tweet turned into a Product: Handywriter
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1 min read
I’ve launched Handywriter today. It’s been one of my favorite tools in WordPress since I built it. It’s a good feeling to be a consumer of your own product. And, Handywriter is not an exception, it helps me a lot while blogging.
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Ethical principles for WP devs
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4 min read
I’m so tired of seeing shady marketing techniques around WordPress plugins. I’m writing this post about plugins particularly but the same thing applies to themes too.
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A new caching plugin: Wonder Cache
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3 min read
I’m excited to announce a brand new caching plugin, Wonder Cache. It’s a simple yet powerful caching plugin. It powers and abilities include: superhuman strength and durability. It’s forked from Batcache. First of all, I want to highlight Batcache. It’s an amazing caching plugin that empowers WordPress.com around a decade. We definitely say it’s a…
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Oh, Redis!
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2 min read
Today, I was working on shifting our object caching backend to Redis at NefisYemekTarifleri. And, it didn’t go well.
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NYT Stats: Ramadan 2019
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2 min read
As a challenging part of working at the NefisYemekTarifleri.com, first three days Ramadan is the busiest time for us. We get max requests during that period. So, I just wanted to highlight some stats for taking note to myself and sharing some stats about WordPress at scale.
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Website Migration: moving to a self-hosted
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2 min read
My personal websites (this one and blog.uysalmustafa.com) have been on the multisite for years and finally, I’ve migrated them to separate installation.