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In the previous two posts, I’ve talked about the basics of caching and how caching works in WordPress, at least to a degree. But remember that this series was motivated by an email from someone who thought that I could do a better job of explaining how transients and caching work in WordPress and why it’s important to […]
In the previous post, I shared a basic primer for how database-backed applications – specifically WordPress – work without caching. And before we talk about how basic caching works in WordPress, namely with the Transients API, it’s important to discuss the basic principles of caching. This includes why we do it, its benefits, and how it works. Then […]
Back in may, I wrote an article about using the WordPress Transients API. I summarize the article like this: To simulate cookies and their feature of expiration, using WordPress transients may be a viable solution. https://tommcfarlin.com/using-wordpress-transients/ Though the purpose of the article was to lay out a foundation for how we can design a class to work […]