PHP CodeSniffer News + Handy WP CLI Commands

As you’re reading this, I’m driving to Madrid to be at the State of the Word this coming Monday. It’ll be the last WordPress event I’ll go to this year, and I’m looking forward to catching up with friends and hopefully get some sunshine.

But of course, me driving right now doesn’t mean there’s no Inside WordPress for you all.

Let’s get to it!

🗞️ Inside WordPress News

Here’s what I saw happening this past week:

• Let’s start with the most important one. PHP CodeSniffer needs your attention. It’s got a new home, but that’s not why you need to click this link.

Seriously, click it if you’re using PHP in your work in any shape or form.

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• Ron Huereca is not the only one who’s a fan of GenerateBlocks. One of the better Block enhancing suites IMO. But he is one of few that created a little plugin that enhances GenerateBlocks even further.

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• Pascal wrote about why all of you, if you’re creating plugins for WordPress that is, should start using Plugin Check now.

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• Katie Keith also did a post mortem about the Barns2 Black Friday sales. As always with Katie, it’s a good read with lots of interesting conclusions.

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• Brian Coords shared an interesting fact about having to opt in for non-Block themes to only load the assets (CSS and JS) for the blocks that are present on the page, instead of loading them site wide.

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I published a couple of WP CLI commands you should check out:

• How To: List All Custom Fields Per Post with WP CLI
• How To: Update WooCommerce Database via WP CLI

And one that you can use to any of these 👆🏻in bulk:

• Run WP CLI Scripts in Bulk Across Various Servers

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🚀 Performance

• Chrome is shipping <img sizes=”auto”> support 🥳 For lazy-loaded images with srcset, this allows the browser to use the layout width of the image in order to select the source url from the srcset. Example.

This is going to save sooo many resources. Someone’s going to do the calculations at one point and it’s going to be mind blowing 🤯.

• Sybre Waaijer, fellow Dutchman, released very neat plugin that displays page generation time. It’s called GenTime.

My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:

• The best Front-end optimization plugin
• Cleaning up WordPress + script manager
• Cloud based performance optimizations

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🔆 Inside WordPress Highlight

• Optimizing your WordPress site just for Web Core Vitals is like optimizing only the aerodynamics of a race car. It’s needed, but it’s just one element of why a race car can go fast. And not just in a straight line. What should you do?

Some of my favorite WordPress tools:

• The most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
• LocalWP, the easiest to use local dev solution

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💡 Interesting Finds

• Now, I’m more than happy to pay for YouTube Premium, but an alternative to blocking all those pesky ads is using Brave.
• Raycast, a wonderful Alfred app alternative, is sharing their 2023 Advent Calendar on X.

Go on, boost your productivity!

• I know there are plenty of WordPress “indiehackers” reading this newsletter, and it is in that context I’m sharing this article on IndieHacker on how to hit $10k MRR faster.

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🎁 Bonus

Here’s something I read that I found interesting enough so maybe you do too? It’s about what Google Consent Mode is doing, but not telling.