I get democracy, I like democracy… I just don’t think our (inc. current UK) leaders get it! You can thank your Greek ancesters for democracy… without their movement the common man would likely still be a slave to some kind of insatiable debourched leadership who’s intensions only intend to serve themselves! …oh wait… hmmm! ‘demos’ […]
Passing WordPress configuration settings to your Javascript files
I always pass data to Javascript from PHP but I’ve never thought about passing local wp-config defines but there is no reason why you can’t! May come back to this to add more information but for now its a quick n dirty documentation of what I’ve just setup in a local environment. In my wp-config.php […]
Script removal or deleted HTML in WordPress Multisite post content
The title is a little misleading but my guess is this is what WordPress developers will be searching for so, to help other developers who stumble across this bug, by the way, it is not a bug it’s about permissions, here goes! There is a function called map_meta_cap in /wp-includes/capabilities.php – this takes 3 parameters […]
How we live streamed the WPChelt meetup with StreamYard to keep the community connected
Last week, late on Friday afternoon, we decided to cancel our meetup. Given the meetup was on the following Wednesday it was a big ask to figure out how we would deliver something under the current circumstances. The current landscape is changing rapidly and with a growing number of people now working remotely it only […]
COVID-19 Conceptal Community Support Website using WordPress
Given the Covid-19 outbreak, I wanted to do something for the community using WordPress. With the concept of isolation upon us, I wondered if I could build something that might help those going into isolation and those who can help others in isolation in their local area. The idea is that anyone in the UK […]
WooCommerce how to make a user exempt from tax charges
I’ve been working on a WooCommerce project recently, the client asked if I could isolate certain users who would need to be exempt from being charged any tax or VAT on products sold through their WooCommerce shop. This particular shop was behind the standard WordPress login so it was simply a case of: adding a […]
MacOS, Homebrew, PHP, Valet, MySQL
As well as a couple of private projects and SLA work, I work under contract for a handful of clients, most of my working days are pre-planned spent developing, testing and deploying code. This means I need a development stack that is reliable, quick to get up and running and is not going to burden […]
A few ways to create a WordPress Plugin
There are many ways to create a WordPress Plugin and it all depends on the requirements of the plugin that defines how complex the steps need to be, here are a few ways I create plugins for my projects. Simple WordPress Plugin For the most basic and simple plugin that only changes or adds the […]
Debugging with Xdebug & Visual Studio Code
In no way is this meant to be a tutorial, more of a resource of how I managed to set this up. If it’s useful to others then that makes me happy 🙂 This setup assumes you are running Valet and have PHP running with Xdebug on a Mac. There are smarter people than I […]
I have been struggling with tech this week!
I’ve recently changed my local development setup and I’ll be honest it’s been a learning curve! I’ve had a lot of support from the community though and I’m so grateful for the time given by those who’ve chipped in to lend a hand. Especially those on Slack and in the UK WP Community, changing things […]