WordPress Development Journal Entries

In the studio: NHS project launch, LearnDash learner experience improvements and WordCamp Europe.

It’s been a busy summer for the Delicious team, with not one, but two projects launching (the second we’ll tell you more about next month) as well as various customisations and fixes for clients’ LearnDash and WordPress websites. We also squeezed in a trip to Greece to learn from and network with fellow WordPress professionals […]

How to stop WooCommerce calling admin-ajax.php on all page loads to improve performance.

WooCommerce makes a call to admin-ajax.php on every page view, to retrieve shopping cart data. As this happens asynchronously, the page view can still be cached – which is great, but the request back to admin-ajax.php can’t be and results in a full un-cached load of WordPress and WooCommerce for reach request. Quite a lot […]

Developing for WordPress multisite – tips for developers.

WordPress Multisite is an excellent tool for building networks of related sites. I’ve been working with WordPress multisite for a long time, in fact since it was a fork of WordPress called WordPress MU which merged back into WordPress in 3.0 and was released in 2010. Over that time I’ve worked on WordPress multisite projects […]

WordPress powered multi-event delegate directory, a meeting room booking system and tombstones.

We’ve had a very busy start to 2023 with lots of projects both large and small for existing clients. This month, we’ve been working on adding custom (and complex!) functionality for some clients alongside more straightforward design and layout tweaks for others… Adding tombstones to a law firm client’s site Nothing to do with novelty […]

In the studio: Custom reporting for LearnDash, dynamic landing pages and customised WooCommerce invoices.

There’s always a variety of different projects and challenges in the Delicious Studio and November has been no exception… Custom reporting and dashboard designs for LearnDash LearnDash has a lot of features as standard, but we often get clients who need something bespoke. In November, we worked on an existing LearnDash site to customise the […]

In the studio: LearnDash gamification, Lottie file Gutenberg block, course licensing and HubSpot integration

It’s been a hectic couple of months for the Delicious Media team as we get deeper into our multisite, multilingual project and take on new clients and new challenges for existing clients. Here’s what we’ve been up to in the Delicious Media studio… Our work continues on our client’s multilingual LearnDash platform… We’re currently working […]