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Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!

Written publication for: Wptuts+
Estimated total website impressions per month: Over 150,000

Synopsis

“Working With Changing, Cacheable Data? WP-Transients Has Got Your Back!” is yet another article I wrote for Wptuts+. Better characterized as a screencast, it is filled with a 40+ minute video tutorial starting from scratch. From the definition of the word transient all the way through a DRY (don’t repeat yourself) PHP class that both retrieves and caches three forms of changing data, this post covers it all in the form of a comprehensive tutorial filled with real-world applications.

Details

The screencast presents three examples that employ the WP-Transients API:

• Retrieving one’s Twitter follower count
• Displaying one’s latest tweets
• Accessing one’s FeedBurner subscriber count

This, coupled with an article accompaniment to the video, aims to provide the reader with all he/she needs to fully understand WP-Transients. As noted earlier, OOP PHP is also included to exemplify best practices and show an effective way to group data.