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A WordPress AJAX call is an HTTP request that front-end JavaScript on a theme or plugin page sends to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php,…

A developer uses admin-ajax.php as the server side of WordPress admin AJAX. For a plugin or a theme, admin-ajax.php runs…

AJAX in WordPress is how a page feature requests data from the server while the visitor is still on the…

WP-Cron is the scheduler WordPress runs on page load rather than from a server clock, so practitioners often disable WordPress…

The WordPress missed schedule error is a publishing failure in which a scheduled post's publish time passes while the post…

Let's picture a situation marketing teams often run into. You open the server logs and see AI crawlers coming back…

A marketing team needs a website it can work with efficiently every day, whether that means publishing content, updating pages,…

A WP-Cron event is the queued record that schedules a WordPress cron job in code: it holds an action hook,…

WordPress names the theme template file it reaches for after the custom post type itself. A custom post type template…

Creating a WordPress custom post type answers a problem that turns up in nearly every client project: content that belongs…

The WordPress video embed shortcode embeds video onto a page or post without the block editor, whether the source is…

A WordPress shortcode is a bracketed tag, something like [ gallery ] or [ contact-form-7 ], that WordPress swaps for…