Comments on WordPress and Genesis Troubleshooting a theme and placing comments where they normally weren’t. Theme creates a page with a list of posts and the first post is shown in it’s entirety. All post, category, and archive pages have the same structure. So the initial wp_query could be a page, an archive, a post, […]
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Redirect WordPress page to most recent post page
Hello to Mike, my most avid reader. Had an interesting task. They wanted a page to go to the post page of the most recent post. I thought easy, peasy, but when I got into the details of it, it was harder than I thought. It was a few weeks ago which is ancient history […]
Moving my desktop to SSD
After cloning with a great free utility called Macrium Reflect, physically disconnecting my hard drive and connecting the new SSD in its place, I was getting 0xc0000225 error. I booted from my recovery CD and tried to get it to recover, but no avail. Found these commends: In recovery tools | Advanced | Command Prompt […]
Changing your image markup in WordPress
There are multiple ways to change the markup of your images, <img>, in WordPress. This article will show how we changed the <img> markup of WordPress posts so they can be lazy loaded. There are at least three (3) filters that can be used: ‘the_content’ filter to alter images in the post_content as they are […]
Using Vue.js to create a UI component for WordPress Part II
This is part II of using Vue.js to create a UI component for WordPress. See part I here. In this article we will first alter our CodePen.io to include some hidden inputs that will hold the data we want to pass into WordPress and then we will take this vue component from Codepen.io and place […]
wp_verify_nonce and PHPUnit testing
When testing a plugin function that is using wp_verify_nonce, we will want that wp_verify_nonce to not return false in our testing environment. (We are using PHPUnit and WP-CLI – see links below on helpful articles to set this environment up) We were testing a plugin function that is hooked into the ‘save_post’ action. It will […]
Using Vue.js to create a UI component for WordPress Part 1
A little background and introduction We needed to create a UI component on the edit screen of posts in WordPress. We wanted the user to be able to add location to a post by inputting in the address. We needed to geocode that address to latitude and longitude. Surely, there would be a plugin already […]
Vue.js and testing how a form will POST its data
We are thinking of using Vue.js to write some UI components. We will want to have it use REST or AJAX to send data back to WordPress, but to integrate this component in the admin/backend side of WordPress, it would be helpful if the component could also send $_POST data back on a form submit […]
Form querying and showing Child pages
This is one way I did it. Products is the parent page with a tree of child pages underneath. Limited to a depth of 2, I guess. After doing this way, realized that the URL doesn’t update and users would not be able to copy the URL and share it. Now looking at adding a […]
A WordPress and a Genesis Template for a bare minimum of markup on a page
There comes a time in a website’s life when a landing page is needed. Many times, you can get away with just creating a new page containing the content you want. This works if you don’t mind having your website’s header, menus, and footers included on the page. On a focused marketing campaign many times […]