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Tag Archives: moodle
Profiling a Dockerized Moodle with Xdebug and QCachegrind on macOS
If you run Moodle under moodle-docker on a Mac and a page feels slow, eyeballing the code only gets you so far. The honest answer is a profiler. 🐳 Here’s how I wired up Xdebug for both step-debugging and on-demand … Continue reading
Setting Up a Moodle REST API Webservice in Five Steps
Moodle ships with a full web-services layer, but the admin flow for handing out a single API token is spread across half a dozen settings pages. The first time you do it, you’ll click around for twenty minutes wondering why … Continue reading
Enabling Vite Hot Reload for Moodle SCSS
🐳 I spent an afternoon chasing a deceptively simple goal: edit a stylesheet in a custom Moodle theme, hit refresh, and see the change — without running a full production build every time. The tool that promises exactly this is … Continue reading
Adding a Moodle cron sidecar to moodle-docker via local.yml
The moodle-docker stack is designed primarily for automated testing — Behat, PHPUnit, and so on — which is why it doesn’t ship a cron container. A background scheduler would interfere with deterministic test runs, so the README’s only nod to … Continue reading
Creating a new theme and changing font on Moodle 5
I wanted to swap the default font in a Moodle 5 install. Specifically: keep Boost, the stock Moodle theme, but use Inter from Google Fonts instead of the Bootstrap system stack. The official path is “make a child theme of … Continue reading
Running multiple Moodle instances side-by-side with moodle-docker
The moodle-docker project gives you a one-command Moodle dev stack — Apache, PHP, the database of your choice, mail catcher, the lot. What its README mentions only in passing is that you can run several Moodle instances on the same … Continue reading
Moodle Plugin Development: version.php, install.xml, upgrade.php, and tasks.php Explained
Moodle is one of the largest Learning Management System (LMS) platforms in the world, and one of its quietly excellent superpowers is its plugin architecture. Every feature you can add — a new activity, a block, a report, an authentication … Continue reading