For fun, I was copying the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie on one of my sites so I could manually set it in another browser and log in without going through the authentication step. While it worked, I noticed I could read the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie from the Chrome developer tools but I could not read the cookie with JavaScript. It turns out this is because it is a HttpOnly cookie, which I got to learn about.
Programming
Git Commit Message Editor
By default Vim is the editor used when writing a Git commit message. While I love Vim, it does work very differently than most other editors. A good option for those who are not comfortable with Vim, is to use a different editor. This is how to setup Git to use a different editor.
Introduction to Arrow functions
I’ve been spending more time working with modern JavaScript (including learning about arrow functions) and I wanted to make some notes here regarding arrow functions (since some details about them were not intuitive to me at first).
Why Learn jQuery
A friend of mine, who is not a developer by trade but deals with websites a lot, asked me recently about learning JavaScript. The short version of my recommendation is to learn jQuery. It is already installed on the sites he is working on and using it he can get results quickly.
Git Delete Merged Branches
When using Git, sometimes (often) I find myself forgetting to delete local branches after merging them. This command deletes this branches (and I’ve included a Git alias to make it easy to use in the future).
WordPress Core Development on Local by Flywheel
I setup a site for WordPress Core development with Local by Flywheel and documented the steps. If you’re trying to do the same, this might be helpful.
Full Post on Blog Archive
On a WordPress project, I wanted to display the full post on the blog archive unless a manual excerpt had been created for the post (in which case I wanted to use the manual excerpt). Here is the code I used to make this happen.
Detect when Native HTML5 Video Finishes Playing
On a recent project, I had to trigger a certain behavior when a native HTML5 video had completed playing (i.e. reached the end of the video, manually stopping it should not trigger the behavior).
Gravity Forms Default Value and Caching
I’m a big fan of the Gravity Forms Form builder WordPress plugin. I came across an interesting issue on a project where I was using the default value functionality and I wanted to make some notes as a warning for others (and myself) in the future.
JavaScript Idle Detection
Recently, I needed to determine when a website visitor was idle for a certain amount of time. I thought this was an interesting problem and wanted to spend a little more time with JavaScript so I wrote some code for it.