Robert Anderson

  • This is how long a request to /wp-admin takes when served by Apache, PHP and MySQL running in a Docker container:

    $ curl 'http://localhost:8888/wp-admin/' ... -s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_starttransfer}\n"
    0.371047

    This is how long a request to /wp-admin takes when served by Apache, PHP and MySQL running natively on my computer:

    $ curl 'http://wp-git-build.test/wp-admin/' ... -s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_starttransfer}\n"
    0.060668

    That’s a 310 ms difference! More than six times faster!

    If you’re a WordPress contributor, you’re making thousands of these requests per day. You really owe it to yourself to take a bit of time and set up a fast development environment. You deserve it!

    Here’s how to set up Apache, PHP, and MySQL for WordPress Core development using Homebrew and macOS.

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  • Widgets and Navigation Hallway Hangout

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    On 14 August 2020, Andrei Draganescu and I hosted an open invite “Hallway Hangout” for the WordPress community. This was a casual Zoom chat intended to emulate the kind of interesting conversation you might end up having with someone new in the hallway of a WordCamp.

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