Track your WordPress installation (and other applications) using Azure Application Insights I stumbled upon an interesting and useful analytics tool for our WordPress installation today from Microsoft called Visual Studio Application… Read More
Serving re-sized images with Jetpack’s Photon service Many WordPress developers complain about the size and bulk of Jetpack, a popular WordPress plugin that packs in an enormous… Read More
Remove duplicate Twitter widgets.js script from oEmbed endpoint HTML when your WordPress site template already includes it Embedding Tweets and other Twitter widgets in WordPress is super useful and popular. The automatic oEmbed functionality in WordPress makes… Read More
Prevent WordPress authors from setting links to open in a new window The WordPress editor allow authors to easily choose when a hyperlink opens the link in a new window or tab.… Read More
WordPress Plugin Review: Image optimization with Kraken.io If you run a WordPress site, or any other website for that matter, it can be hugely beneficial to optimize… Read More
WordPress Plugin Review: Advanced Custom Fields Pro We use a number of WordPress plugins on GeekWire. One of the most useful ones we’ve found is Advanced Custom… Read More
Free yourself from WordPress theme hooks and filters If you are using a commercial theme for your WordPress site, chances are you have customized your site using numerous action… Read More
Add WordPress author tracking in Google Analytics using custom dimensions While tracking WordPress pageviews in Google Analytics is pretty easy to accomplish, another interesting metric for many websites is to… Read More
Intercept a right-click on your navbar logo to redirect to hi-res logo download page As a news site, many companies will download our logo for inclusion on their own webpages. The natural way that… Read More
3 diagnostic tools you should run on all of your webpages When we developed our new GeekWire website in September, one of the critical steps in the process was to run… Read More
Removing default category in WordPress automatically at time of publishing When you author a post in WordPress, it will automatically assign the post to your default category. This is determined… Read More
Controlling WordPress excerpts and generating Read More links Many WordPress sites take advantage of post excerpts to display snippets of posts on the home page or archive pages… Read More
Excluding certain posts from WordPress search results based on custom field values We recently came across a need to exclude a set of custom posts from our WordPress search results page, based… Read More
Using the Transients API to improve WordPress site performance I first encountered the WordPress Transients API a couple of years back. I was reviewing the database tables on one… Read More
Welcome to the GeekWire Dev Blog! GeekWire has been cranking out loads of technology news and analysis since it launched back in 2011. While we love… Read More
