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: […]
Officiating a Wedding in Pennsylvania
I’ve been asked to officiate a wedding here in Pennsylvania. This led me down the rabbit hole, which I thought I’d document for my future use. Since their views align with my own, I decided to become ordained through the Universal Life Church [ULC]. Do only that which is right Every individual is free to […]
Search WordPress Post and Post Meta
Recently, I had to find instances of where specific Gravity Forms were being used. This came with multiple challenges. Challenges Searching for gravityform id=”7″ returns results for just gravityform (i.e. too many results) If the gravity form appears in post meta (rather than the primary content), it is excluded (i.e. missing results) SQL Solution Find […]
Printable Ugly Sweater Template PDF
As a holiday craft, my boys like to exercise their artistic skills to draw ideas for ugly sweaters. Here is a template that we use to get them started. Download Sweater Template
Git Delete Merged Branches from Remote
When I’m working on a project using Git, I’m good about deleting local branches that I don’t need anymore. However, I often forget about my remote branches after they are merged. While it is convenient that most of the Git hosting I use makes it easy to show only unmerged branches, this also makes it […]
WordPress Shortcode
A WordPress shortcode allows you to define PHP to be executed somewhere in your post content. jump to resources The Letter of the Day Imagine you maintain a WordPress website that includes a letter of the day. One way to maintain such a website would be to log in each day and update the letter. […]
WordPress Anchor Shortcode Plugin
Once an article reaches a certain length, it is valuable to allow linking to a specific part of the page by creating anchor locations. Unfortunately, creating an anchor location in WordPress involves writing raw HTML, which is not an ideal client solution. There are other solutions out there but Blinebury Design wanted a specific set […]
Make Your WordPress Plugin Easy to Extend
As a WordPress developer it is a painful (and all too familiar) feeling of angst, when I find a plugin that does almost exactly what I want but the author has left no way for me to modify the behavior without changing their code. Don’t Hack Core (or plugins) A popular refrain in WordPress developer […]
Overridable Templates in Your WordPress Plugin
There are many WordPress plugins that allows you to provide your own template in your theme that overrides the default template (e.g. WooCommerce). I’d like to look at how you can add this functionality to your own plugin. Default Template For demonstration purposes I’ve created a WordPress plugin called the Raptor Button plugin. This plugin […]
Make Your Plugin Translatable
As we watch the number of non-English WordPress installations grow faster than English installations, the value of making your plugin “translation ready” grows as well. In order to make your plugin translatable (this is also know as Internationalization or I18n), there are three things you need to do. 1. Use Translation Functions Whenever you use […]