Cancel

Tag: heartbeat API

  • How to Take Control of The WordPress Heartbeat API

    How to Take Control of The WordPress Heartbeat API

    The WordPress Heartbeat API, introduced in WordPress 3.6, simulates a pulse and is responsible for revision tracking, session management, and more. The pulse is around 98 Bytes in size, but it can cause performance issues in certain situations. If you’ve been notified by your webhost that your account is using too many resources and cite…

    Jeff Chandler

  • Pulse: An Example WordPress Plugin Using the Heartbeat API

    I’ve long been a fan of WordPress developer Jeffrey Pearce, better known online as Jeffikus. He’s created several educational resources for WordPress over the past few years. Today he released Pulse on github. Pulse is an open source plugin that will help developers get started with Heartbeat API development.

    Sarah Gooding