If you’ve had the pleasure of loading up items dynamically (via AJAX) using jQuery, you may have come across issues where event handlers on dynamically loaded items seemingly cease to work on newly loaded items. I’ve been there and I remember how frustrating it was when I first encountered it so I’m addressing this very […]
If you’ve ever gotten down to business with WooCommerce, you’ll know how flexible that beast can get. Of course, the flip side to that is how gnarly things can get in there as well but I guess that’s the double-edged sword we live with when building complicated things out of WordPress. One little handy point […]
If you’ve built plugins you’ve undoubtedly spent a whole lot of time and energy finishing up on sweet new feature X only to then face the hurdle of having to prep the whole shebang for release. I was tired of hitting that final hurdle whilst working on the ACF Custom Database Tables plugin so I […]
If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to modify the post titles in an ACF relationship field, you may have already stumbled across the acf/fields/relationship/result filter. It’s a pretty useful filter when you want to provide some more contextual information next to a post title in the relationship field results list. As with many filters built […]
One thing I really appreciate about the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is the flexibility it offers via WordPress’ hook system. For most use cases, we can do what we need from the admin but now and then I come up against scenarios where it is either necessary or just a whole lot easier to […]
I’ve seen quite a few instances of people asking when and where to use PHP’s alternative syntax for control structures and if you don’t know what I’m referring to, check out the PHP documentation for an outline. There’s no hard and fast rule for when to use the alternate syntax but personally, I much prefer […]
Templating in WordPress is pretty easy, right? There are loads of template functions and most things are pretty well document but every now and then it’s just nice to see exactly what variables you have at your fingertips. All it takes a simple one-liner to do exactly that: The above will dump an array of […]
When you start digging into WordPress partials, things really open up on the theme side. Being able to reuse templates is a nice feature and can help keep your code nice and tidy but if your templates are using WordPress’ template tags, you can easily find yourself in situations where you need the markup from […]
A neat feature of included files is the fact that they can return data. You can simply assign the output of an include or require statement to a variable and get to work on whatever is returned from that file. Personally, I use this for configuration data where I have arrays full of options. I […]
Debugging can be a lot simpler with a nice set of tools. Ideally, breakpoints and stepping through code is the way to go but sometimes it is nice and easy just to dump stuff somewhere. Dumping to the DOM is usually fine but can obviously cause problems on the page render and it can be […]
