If you’ve ever found yourself in a situation where you need to render something from some other post whilst in the context of another, you may have ended up just overriding the global $post variable. It works fine but can be problematic where you mess it up or just forget to clean up after yourself. […]
Having written plugins that extend the very popular WordPress plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), I’ve come up against the need to work out a field’s key based on its field name. This normally comes up when structuring data for programmatic field update as ACF needs to the values mapped to field keys when updating complex […]
I’ve recently been developing sites using a utility-based approach with my CSS and I’m kinda loving the flexibility that comes with this paradigm. One particularly useful class I seem to use a lot is one that removes margins from the first and last elements within a container. I use this a lot because I tend […]
Versioning your assets in WordPress is relatively straight-forward as the wp_register_script() and wp_register_style() functions both offer support for specifying a version as a function parameter. It’s easy to use because you simply pass it a value but it’s also simple to forget which could result in site visitors loading up stale versions of CSS and […]
In recent work where I’ve been using tailwindcss to build my UI, I’ve come up against the challenge of dealing with WordPress’ default menu markup. One possible solution here could be to write a custom walker class but, for something quick and simple, the following code snippet got me where I needed to be with […]
So this has kind of caught me a few times and thought I might stick it here as a future note to self. When attempting to push to a Gist using SSH authentication, the remote host needs to be in the format that support SSH. e.g; [email protected]:xxxxxxxxx.git Command to check: git remote v If the […]
In a recent project using the Laravel framework, I’ve been getting familiar with WebSockets and came up against a situation where I needed to broadcast an event only when a certain property on a model had changed. I couldn’t find this documented anywhere but, after quick dig into the IlluminateEventsDispatcher class, I found the event dispatcher actually […]
When crafting custom-built interfaces, I find it incredibly convenient to be able to scale the entire thing down (in size) for devices below a certain width. On sites that have a lot of pixel-based CSS rules, this can be tricky as it can involve writing quite a lot of additional CSS inside a media query […]
