Why WordPress Developers Tell You to Disable Plugins and Use a Default Theme

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If you’ve ever asked for help with a plugin you’re using, youโ€™ve probably heard the same advice over and over: “Disable all your plugins and switch to a default theme. Then, turn them back on one by one.” It might feel like a boring, copy-paste answer. But there’s a very practical reason behind it. Narrowing …

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Combining a WordPress Plugin Into One file to Debug or Analyse With AI

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If youโ€™ve ever tried using an AI tool to help debug or analyse a WordPress plugin, you may have run into a challenge: AI platforms often require a single file input, while your plugin is made up of multiple PHP, JavaScript, and other files. Luckily, thereโ€™s a simple way to combine your plugin into a …

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Get on Top of Code Comments With Todo Tree for VS Code

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Do you use VS Code and add comments, such as TODO, FIXME, BUG, etc? Then there’s a neat extension available, which you can use to show a tree view of these types of comments. What Is Todo Tree? The Todo Tree extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) gives developers visibility over comments added within …

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Use Query Monitor to Profile Running Time and Memory Usage of WordPress Code

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Query Monitor is a WordPress plugin that includes several debugging tools, including a profiling feature that you can use to investigate running time and memory usage of specific code, find out more below. What is Query Monitor? As you’ve come across this blog post, you probably already know what Query Monitor is, skip this if …

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