Simple Things Are Easy: Configuration Management in Drupal 8
As I have written and talked about before, my favorite feature of Drupal 8 is Configuration Management.
Running Drupal 8 Data Migrations on Pantheon Through Drush
Editor's Note: The structure of Terminus commands have changed since this post was written. The example commands have been updated to reflect the current structure of terminus command:subcommand <site>.<env>. Also when this post was written, Drupal 8 was the newest version of Drupal and was a large technical departure from Drupal 7 (hence the need for robust migration processes described in this post).
Quickly Get a WooCommerce Store Up and Running on Pantheon
Pantheon has teamed up with ecommerce expert Patrick Rauland to create our new WooCommerce Quick Start guide. This guide is designed to help you get a WooCommerce store up and running on Pantheon. It will teach you how to:
Create a WordPress site on Pantheon and install WooCommerce
Commit your changes with version control
Profiling MySQL Queries for Better Performance
At Pantheon, website performance is our priority, so when a client asked me to investigate why his site was slow, I decided to document the story to share with all of our users.
NONCE Upon a time in WordPress
NONCE upon a time we didn’t need to worry about Cross-Site Request Forgeries. We handled users submitting a form twice by simply processing the form twice. Neither of these were great strategies, so someone invented the Number used ONCE or "NONCE". Let’s take a quick look at what they are, how WordPress implements them, and how you can implement them in your own forms and code.
Using JavaScript Beyond the Browser
This is a companion blog post to the conference talk I gave at the JavaScript for WordPress conference, online on July 12th, 2019. If you missed the talk or want to bookmark the recap and links, read on.
Upgrading to WordPress 5.0 on Pantheon
WordPress 5.0, with a new editor and arguably the biggest change the CMS has ever seen, is close to being released! A lot of folks have been asking us how Pantheon plans to handle WordPress 5.0 and what their upgrade options are, which we’ll outline below. Whatever path you choose, we encourage you to upgrade as soon as possible to keep your sites secure.
How to Bridge KPIs and Website Performance Metrics to Boost Page Speed
Marketing and developer teams often speak different languages and have conflicting priorities. However, many companies are discovering there are two sides to the same coin: every business KPI has a corresponding technical metric that directly influences its success.
Here are five high-level business KPIs and the website performance metrics you should track.
Three Lessons From Taking Gutenberg to Drupal
Content authoring can be painful. Drupal Gutenberg is an editor, originally written by the WordPress community, that makes it easy to create content—from long-form feature articles to rich landing pages.
As soon as we started presenting Gutenberg in client meetings, we knew it was huge. “How fast can we get this?” was the usual response. The people most eager to get started were always content producers. We were not surprised.
Test Coverage for Your WP REST API Project
Alex the developer is pretty excited about the WordPress REST API. Because the infrastructural components were introduced in WordPress 4.4, they too can use register_rest_route() to easily register their own WP REST API endpoints. In fact, they love registering routes so much that they’re creating API endpoints for every project they work on.