In web development it's a often a best practice to only load CSS and JavaScript files on pages where you need them. Developing an efficient website is both a matter of site performance and of … Read more about Conditionally Loading Scripts and Stylesheets in WordPress For Ajax Requests
I presented this talk at the 2017 FOSS4G conference in Boston. The target audience was a group of GIS developers and users who were not WordPress experts. You can view the slide deck or view the … Read more about Spatially enable WordPress with WP-GeoMeta-Lib
PHP Code Sniffer (PHPCS) is a code inspector that can help enforce coding standards by highlighting problems. We like it because using it is an easy way to make sure you're using best practices while … Read more about WordPress PHP CodeSniffer for your favorite editor
We've been hard at work on a new WordPress plugin called WP-GeoMeta and we're happy to announce that it was just accepted in the WordPress plugin repository! Spatial Support for WordPress … Read more about Announcing WP-GeoMeta
We've talked a lot about how using a mapping framework to build custom maps allows for utmost creativity and interactive control (see Choosing a Mapping Framework ) but it is important to know what … Read more about When and Why to Use Hosted GIS Services
I just recently (yesterday!) started testing Pressmatic for my local WordPress development. Up until now I've been running my own Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP servers which I installed using Brew by … Read more about Changing Database Versions in Pressmatic
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What does a Mapping Framework do? If you think of web maps as cars, as we discuss in Anatomy of a Web Map (the first of this 6 part series), a Mapping Framework is the engine. It is a JavaScript … Read more about Choosing a Mapping Framework
Web maps are like cars. It's easy to appreciate a nice looking web map, but most people don't need to know about everything that's going on under the hood. Just like when buying car, however, if you … Read more about Anatomy of a Web Map