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WordPress Multisite Skip Confirmation Email

Last updated on August 1, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

When creating a new user on WordPress multisite there is a “Skip Confirmation Email” checkbox that is unchecked by default. This unchecked box results in a user being added to a temporary “signups list” when they are added to the site. The user is not fully added to the site until they complete the confirmation steps in the email they receive. For many sites, it is preferable to check this “Skip Confirmation Email” when adding a user. With some code you can set this checkbox to default to checked.

Filed Under: Programming, Solution Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress Multisite, WordPress Plugin

How to Close and Re-Open WordPress Gutenberg Sidebar

Last updated on June 30, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

The sidebar gets a lot of use in the WordPress Block Editor, a.k.a. Gutenberg, but I found myself in a situation where I needed to programmatically close the sidebar and then re-open it later. This is how I did it.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: Gutenberg, JavaScript, WordPress

Get Last Modified Value of a WordPress Post

Last updated on June 19, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

When reading an article online, I find it helpful to know when the article was last updated. Not all blogs display the last updated value however even when the last updated value is not displayed, the value is accessible via the WordPress REST API. This is how I retrieve the last modified value from the WordPress REST API.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: JSON, REST API, web browser, WordPress

Pretty Print JSON URL

Last updated on May 20, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

I work a lot with JSON endpoints and having a browser extension to pretty print the JSON response is invaluable. However, sometimes I’m using a different machine (or guiding someone on their machine) and rather than asking them to install a browser extension, I use this trick. If the user is on the page displaying the JSON response, running this command in the browser console will pretty print the response await (await fetch(window.location.href)).json().

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: JSON, REST API, web browser

Git delete remote branch

Last updated on April 25, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

This is the command I run when I want to delete a branch named “chore/fix-typo” from the default remote (which is named “origin”): git push origin –delete chore/fix-typo

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: Git, git alias

Prevent Dragging an HTML Element

Last updated on March 21, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

Sometimes users accidentally drag an HTML element into an editable area. This can be prevented by adding draggable=”false” to the element.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: HTML

Git Get Current Branch Name

Last updated on March 18, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

I find there are two different times I want to get the current branch name: 1. When I’m at the command line, 2. Inside a Git alias function I’m writing. Interestingly, I find that my approach in these two situations are different.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: Git

phpcs no matches found ignore

Last updated on March 13, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

When running phpcs with the –ignore option (because I don’t want to scan the /vendor nor /node_modules directories), I kept getting the error “zsh: no matches found: –ignore=/vendor/*,/node_modules/*”.

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Programming, Solution Tagged With: PHPCS, zsh

Don’t Do It Now, Open an Issue Instead

Last updated on February 26, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

When working on an issue, it is easy to get sidetracked by other unrelated changes that need to be made. I’ve found that instead of addressing other issues as I spot them, taking a moment to open an issue and then ignoring them allows me to stay focused on the task at hand.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Programming, Recommendations, Solution Tagged With: focus, lifehack, motivation

Replace Local Git Branch with Remote Version

Last updated on February 20, 2023 by Sal Ferrarello

This situation often arises for me when I’m reviewing a teammate’s Pull Request and they make changes by rewriting history. In this situation, I want to discard my local copy of the Pull Request branch and replace it with the version on GitHub (or wherever the remote branch is being stored).

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Solution Tagged With: Git

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