One gap in the abilities of WP CLI at the moment is the ability to modify an already existing wp-config.php file. v1.2 introduced the –force flag to overwrite an existing one, but that is the sledgehammer option – so I started working on it myself. I have put a very initial version on GitHub and…
VPNs and proxies are great – but almost always limited to funnelling all traffic through them. But what if you want to access only a single site/domain without affecting the rest of your browsing? Perhaps to access a staging site not publically available. While what I discuss below could be used as a privacy measure,…
Updated 02 – 05 – 18: plugins object is now returned as an array. On a whim this May bank holiday, tucked up on the sofa watching movies, I decided to create a plugin to display my favourited plugins on WordPress.org. After a bit of digging I found you can use the plugins_api() function and…
Just to be clear – there are no affiliate links, sponsored content or anything similar in this post. Recently I started taking the JavaScript for WordPress course and would highly recommend it. Not long after I received an email from them promoting their affiliate system – help advertise the course and you get a kick-back.…
Fancy sending your WordPress site back (or forward) in time for a day? Thanks to the multitude of filters it only takes a few lines of code. In this example I’m just going to filter the_time(), but in a future post I will also show you how to put together a more comprehensive function that…
Jump to the bottom if you want to go straight to the script I recently set up a new VPS on DigitalOcean and chose to manage the web stack and sites with EasyEngine. I’m very impressed with EashEngine, but the fact it makes deploying sites so easy shows up how much overhead there is in…
WordPress has a handy get_terms() function that retrives a list of all the terms for a taxonomy – this is great if you are, for example, building a <select> box for filtering a custom post type listing page. But there’s one big problem, if you use this on a shared taxonomy, it will show all…
Garlic.js is a great library – it uses localStorage to save the state of forms, so if your users accidentally close the tab or browser before submitting, their entry isn’t lost. This works seemlessly for almost all form elements, however WYSIWYG editors like TinyMCE present problems. Luckily it isn’t hard to fix – there’s a…
There are two things that designers will throw out quite often – box grids with rows, and repeating background colours. Sounds easy – but go and try it within the WordPress loop (or any other). It can get ugly quickly, but the solution is actually simple: Modulus. In PHP it’s the % sign. To see…
I decided to write a short follow up from the post from last week about the performance of this site, but framed more as a “how to quickly speed up my site”. Even if you can’t or don’t want to go down the line of changing themes (or writing your own), profiling plugins to find…