Category: Development
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What’s new in PHP 8?
On November 26th 2020, there will be a new version of PHP released. This new release has a number of new features, as well as implementing some non-backward compatible changes. Seravo has already started testing and deploying the release candidates…
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WordPress.org Calls For PHP 8.0 Testers: Seravo Answers
On October 6th 2020, the WordPress Core team put out a call for testers. Specifically, there was a requirement for testing WordPress with PHP 8.0 release candidate, especially with the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release. The dates of these releases coincide,…
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Migrating from deployer.seravo.com to Github actions
The WordPress.org plugin repository still uses Subversion in 2020, and a lot of developers have been frustrated about this for many years already. Most developers use git as their daily source control versioning system, and going back to running svn…
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Webinars for WordPress Developers
This spring has changed the world in many ways. One small change of plans is that we have had to put the WordPress training that we do in Finland on hold. Instead, we have decided to do a series of…
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How HTTP/3 Will Make the Internet Faster
When HTTP/2 was released in 2015 as an official IETF standard it was a major improvement over the old HTTP/1.1 protocol that had been in use since the ’90s. At Seravo we rolled HTTP/2 out for all of our customers…
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PHP 7.4 released
The PHP project announced the release of PHP 7.4 on November 28th, 2019. As usual, they have also published a migration guide to assist developers in updating their code to support PHP 7.4. This release continues to bring smaller gradual…
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Give Your Content a Boost With Blocks
With version 5.0 WordPress got its new Gutenberg editor, which brought a host of notable changes to the post and page handling with it. The most important new feature being blocks, the core idea driving Gutenberg. Blocks change content production…
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WP-CLI v2.3 released
WP-CLI is a great tool which we use heavily at Seravo and if you are a developer we hope you do too. Version 2.3 is a smaller release but with some nifty improvements and we actually also participated with a…
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Best PHP code style for WordPress developers?
Code style has always been a topic of huge debate since programming was a thing. One of the more famous and debated questions, namely the usage of tabs or spaces for code indentation, has even been mentioned in the popular…
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Upgrade to PHP 7.3 for better performance and security
If you are running WordPress on any ancient PHP version older than 5.6, I have some bad news for you: as of WordPress version 5.2, the minimum PHP version that WordPress runs on is 5.6.20. Don’t sigh from relief even…