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I bet that when Mike Little commented on Matt Mullenweg‘s B2 blog ten years ago, he didn’t realize what the both of them were about to start, which was nothing short of a revolution! Their brainchild is what we’ve come to use and love and know as WordPress. From the bottom of my heart: thank you Matt and thank you Mike for starting this thing.
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Recently I’ve had several discussions with colleagues asking me for the debugging practices that I use. I try to constantly enhance my workflow, resources and improve the quality of my work by speeding up the process of narrowing down the possible reasons for a bug or a feature limitation. Speaking WordPress-wise, I’ll list a couple of things that I consider important. Some of them are more than obvious, but somehow people misuse them or forget about them at a moment of crisis (so to speak).
Before you start: always do backups. Debug your web application locally, test properly and ensure that everything is on set before deploying to the real server. Best practices teach that a local server -> staging/dev server -> production server is a good setup to prevent the obvious error of hitting the live website.