Monthly Archives: November 2014

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 using get_posts, so I tried WP_Query with the same results. So, thinking I had a legitimate bug, I went to report it and found that there was already a ticket and a patch for it ( gotta love the WordPress community ). The patch is a nice, elegant fix that worked well when I tested it – but until it’s accepted into core it’s not really an option to use because hacking core is bad. So I rolled my own in the meantime. (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 to. (more…)