With the newly released WordPress 5.0, which includes the new block-based Gutenberg editing experience, many people are installing the Classic Editor plugin to retain the previous behavior. The Classic Editor plugin is the official solution being prescribed for these situations. No problem, install the Classic Editor plugin and 5.0 will be indistinguishable from 4.9.8 for […]
Dev Tips
Command Line Find
Since I’m always forgetting the format for the command line “find” command, I’ve made a note of it here.
Twitter Search
Search tips for Twitter copied from tweet thread at https://twitter.com/TexanTruth42/status/996533468707414016
WordPress Custom Editor Block
With WordPress 5.0 a new block-based editing experience will be introduced (a.k.a. Gutenberg). This new editing experience is available via the Gutenberg plugin. By adding this plugin to your (development) WordPress website, you can preview the new editing experience. At the time of this writing, Gutenberg is still under-development so I recommend only installing it […]
Authorize.Net Automated Recurring Billing Statuses
Authorize.Net’s Automated Recurring Billing (ARB) allows you to run subscriptions from within Authorize.Net. Once you create a subscription, it will have a status value. The status value for a subscription can be one of the following: active suspended expired canceled terminated Unfortunately, I found these statuses and when they occur a bit confusing so I […]
MySQL Paging Lots of Results
I’ve recently moved to using the terminal program alacritty, which does not natively do paging. This is not generally a problem since I can pipe results to less. $ ls dir-w-lots-of-files | less However, I found myself working in command line MySQL and I got LOTS of results but could not page back. It turns […]
WP CLI Local by Flywheel without SSH
Note Changes have been introduced in Local Lightning, the newest version of Local by Flywheel and this article has not yet been updated to address how to use WP CLI with this version.. I’ve become a big fan of Local by Flywheel for local WordPress development (i.e. running websites on my Mac). One thing I […]
When command line “which” gives the wrong result
There is a very useful command line tool called which. This tool determines which file will be executed when you type it. Unfortunately, this command can sometimes provide the wrong answer. Update: I’ve recently been introduced to the type command, which seems to do what I want. You can jump to the section on using […]
Using Vim to View Git Commits
This tweet blew my mind. $ git log | vim -R –Now press <K> on a commit hash. — Luke Diamand (@LukeDiamand) February 21, 2018 I spend a lot of my time in Vim and Git and this is an amazing combination of the two. While I love this command, I think we can do […]
Install Multiple WordPress Plugins with WP CLI
At a recent WordPress meetup we were discussing WP CLI and the comment came up, “When setting up a site, it would be nice to install a bunch of plugins with a single command.” Fortunately a WordPress meetup is a great place to bounce ideas off of smart people and find a solution. Solution 1: […]