On the WordPress Optimization/Performance page it suggests hardcoding static variables rather than referencing them through WordPress functions. I think I get the rationale behind that. But what about doing...
This question already has answers here: How do I determine the size of an object in Python? (15 answers) Closed 5 years ago. How would you go about finding...
It’s something I noticed ever since I started working with WordPress. It’s a universal issue, in the sense that it doesn’t matter if the WP installation is on my...
I’m trying to display a list of 5 authors randomly. Here are some solutions I had found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5502609/get-authors-randomly https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/91326/1044 I’m currently using the former solution except that I use...
Is a switch statement actually faster than an if statement? I ran the code below on Visual Studio 2010’s x64 C++ compiler with the /Ox flag: #include <stdlib.h> #include...
I’m unclear on the get_the_foo() style of functions, for example get_the_permalink(). My main question is: when this is performed in The Loop, is another SQL query executed (besides the...
Often I find myself wanting to get the first object from a queryset in Django, or return None if there aren’t any. There are lots of ways to do...
I am trying to upload many hundreds of images daily from a folder on the server to the media library using the following script that is scheduled via CRON:...
In Java, using throw/catch as a part of logic when there’s not actually an error is generally a bad idea (in part) because throwing and catching an exception is...
I have a web site, that while working properly, every day, at 11:00am using a huge amounts of the server resources. The web hosting account contains only the WordPress,...