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Hook into WordPress
Lab: Remove Query String from Static Resource URL
Video Runtime: 11:57
We need to hook into a filter event within WordPress to change the stylesheets’ and scripts’ URL. How do we find this hook? Let’s talk about a strategy first. And then let’s look in WordPress Core to see where it’s fired and what arguments we will get when our code runs.
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Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS) - the best kiss you'll get in code.
Episodes
Total Lab Runtime: 03:18:22
- 1 Lab Introductionfree 09:30
- 2 What is a URL Query String?free 14:36
- 3 The Intent of ?ver=1.0.0free 12:22
- 4 Understanding the Problemfree 14:01
- 5 Cache Busting Strategiesfree 09:57
- 6 Planning Our Pluginpro 18:17
- 7 Versioning Utility Helper Filepro 08:36
- 8 Start the URL Converter Classpro 18:11
- 9 Hook into WordPresspro 11:57
- 10 Regex or Parse the URL?pro 12:30
- 11 Convert with Regexpro 06:10
- 12 Apache and Nginx Rewrite Rulespro 10:43
- 13 Deciding Whether to Convertpro 07:35
- 14 Skip When No Version Query Stringpro 09:18
- 15 Only the Local Assetspro 14:09
- 16 Improving Our Code & Readabilitypro 11:52
- 17 Test, Fine-Tune, and Wrap it Uppro 08:38
