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).
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
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 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.
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.
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.
A few weeks back, we released a list of the most popular plugins on Pantheon, based on actual installs on the platform. That list doesn't match the list of most popular plugins from WordPress.org, so this week I dug into some notable divergences.
Australia-based digital design agency and Premier Pantheon Partner Morpht provides valuable thought leadership at the forefront of the digital mad dash. Managing Director of Morpht, Murray Woodman, had this to say about this rapidly evolving landscape and where Drupal 9 fits in: “Over the years, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of marketing and social platforms on the market, and many new services are coming and going — creating a rapidly evolving landscape.
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.
All they wanted to do was flip the fashion industry’s production model on its head. No big deal.
- Alex Vasquez, Principal and Co-Founder of DigiSavvy