Coming from C#, one my favorite additions to that language was null coalescing operator. I’m happy to say that PHP 7 has added this operator and it’s a great operator that can make your code more clear and purposeful. Would you like to coalesce? The word coalesce according to one dictionary is a verb that […]
Sometimes, you just need to get a list of posts, that contain a specific piece of metadata and output them as a list. Instead of getting a list of each post and then looping over all the posts and checking for metadata, it’s a relatively simple SQL statement. If you had a list of product […]
The way WordPress decided to deal with adding custom pieces of data is both cumbersome and elegant. Because it stores ALL metadata in one table, it can be painful to try to figure out what a data object looks like. Things like adding Foreign keys and enforcing certain relationships can not be done easily. Your […]
I was looking through some of my CSS experiments I did a while ago, and I found an experiment I did with binary on CodePen. See the Binary Flower Clock It was a fun little project and thoroughly nerdy, but it probably requires a little bit of explanation. First of all, what can a binary representation […]
Computers 101. It’s all magic, right? You’ve probably heard that deep down inside, computers are just 1s and 0s. Maybe someone told you that when you write a text or make a phone call everything is coded into this magical digital language of ones and zeros and then those ones and zeros are sent along some cable at the speed of electrons […]
Recently, I ran into an issue where I wanted to easily define layouts for a Divi theme for different categories. Note, I don’t use Divi for this blog, but in my day job, we have a lot of Divi-based sites.
For this particular site, I wanted to allow content creators to easily customize layouts for different categories or group of categories using Divi.
In this post I will focus on how to consume and organize the results of the array that we get back from a previous post, where we got all the meta_data for ALL the posts. It’s a simple step, but it will complete the goal to categorize all our meta-data and display on one page.
Recently I had a requirement to take a list of JSON objects that had a hierarchical structure and represent it as a table. For reference, here’s a sample of what the JSON object looked something like. If you want to try on your own, feel free to copy below. [{ “ProductVariants”: [{ “Images”: [{ “ImageTypeID”: 27, […]
Once in a while you find a convenience function that you never really knew before. It’s a method that seems to save a few lines of code or gets rid of some monotonous boilerplate code that you use over and over. Well, wp_list_pluck is one of those functions. But what does it do? how does it […]
So recently when doing an update to a client’s site, I noticed some strange at the top of php file. Uh-oh, I’d seen this before and knew what that meant. The site was hacked. Expecting the worst, I logged into my site and started to identify, search, and destroy this code. Since the steps to do […]