When unit testing your code, there are times when you need to test the same method or function with a variety of different parameters. For example, we have a function to check to see if a passed email is both valid and not already in the list of known emails: Read More
Recently while working on a project in WordPress, I found myself adding and remove code to bypass cached transients. Needless to say, this was not a great solution. It caused needless code churn and sometimes it MAY have gotten committed to master. As a result, I wrote a new WordPress plugin that will allow me […] Read More
A while ago I was working on a patch to refresh the code for the default widgets that are included with WordPress Core. One of the changes made was to replace the i18n methods currently in-place with their counterparts that escape and translate the output. This is a pretty common practice as translation files can be a potential […] Read More
Recently I was running into issues with VVV running some units tests for AJAX. I was not able to remedy the issue so I decided to create a testing environment from the SVN repo directly. I went to the page on the codex and while the information there was great, part of the instructions are to […] Read More
It was a very simple patch, just removing some code that is no longer needed, but now that ticket #31485 has been committed, I will have contributor props for WordPress 4.2! Update: 4.2 was released today and I am very happy to have played a (small) part in it! Photos or it didn’t happen! Read More
I have run into a bug a few times in the past little while that had me stumped. When creating meta boxes on the admin side of WordPress that contained custom loops, I couldn’t reset $post using wp_reset_postdata() – it just didn’t work. Originally, I thought maybe I was doing it wrong because I was […] Read More
Sometimes when we’re developing a plug-in, it’s easy to forget that we’re not building something that is meant to be standalone. What we’re building is going to exist as part of the WordPress ecosystem and as such it should respect it’s configuration. Simply put, if WordPress is in debug mode, than your plugin should be […] Read More
Sometimes it is necessary to modify or remove the default WordPress post updated messages that are displayed when making changes to a Post in WordPress. One example is when you are creating a custom post type that does not have a permalink. When you save a draft, publish or update a published post, you are […] Read More
When I was at WordCamp Ottawa this year, I was asked a question about how to create custom post types without generating permalinks. This is actually something I do a lot of as I am creating internal content types that are not meant to be viewed individually at their own url. The snippet below will […] Read More