A couple of days ago I was browsing through the WordPress core Trac looking for something to get involved in and stumbled upon the following issue: The lack of ability to upload SVGs into WordPress has always been a slight annoyance to me so I decided to see what I could do about it. After reading through the thread, I realised that what PHP was really missing, was a decent SVG sanitizer. I read...
So I’ve just updated my blog to use the new p2-breathe theme and the O2 plugin by Automattic and I must say, I like it.
I’m hoping it’ll encourage me to blog some more, but I’m sure we’ll see!
Edit: It’s very nice when you post!
I’ve been working with a lot of WordPress plugins recently and have come across a bug that had me stumped for a while, therefore, I thought it’d be worth sharing it here. After installing and activating a plugin that created new database tables, I realised that the tables had not been installed. I contacted the plugin support who suggested re-installing WordPress. Reluctantly I did...
Recently I’ve been tasked with integrating a few API’s into WordPress sites. Whilst this doesn’t seem too hard, I found it hard to find solid documentation on the best practices in this scenario. In this post I will explain how I decided to go about these integrations, focussing mainly on my class loading inside WordPress. Why Autoload? Themes in WordPress all seem to be very...
We use Elliot Condon’s Advanced Custom Fields extensively in WordPress at work and I must say, it’s one of my favourite WordPress plugins ever made. That said, sometimes people ask for things that I just can’t work out how to do with the native plugin. Today a client asked me to allow them to set their own zoom distance on their maps. We’re using the great ACF map field...
Recently I’ve became more and more interested in CSS3 use on the web. This interest stems from the fact that more and more people are moving from using JavaScript to manipulate items on the the DOM to using CSS3 Keyframe animations and Transforms. Up until now, I have only used CSS3 for nth-child selectors and other little bits, mainly leaning back on JavaScript to do the heavy lifting...
A few weeks ago I was commissioned to create a WordPress plugin for a client. This plugin needed to take a feed on news from my clients website and display it on their clients dashboards. After a few searches of the WordPress directory, I couldn’t find anything suitable, to either use as as a complete tool, or as a base top develop on top of. As such, I decided that learning the basics of...
Until now, I’ve only ever dipped my toe into the open source community, adding issues there, commenting here, maybe making the odd pull request. Today, I decided to jump in and whether anything will come of it, I don’t have a clue. I was sat around tonight thinking about making up some HTML emails, whilst thinking about it, I realised how bad my workflow around this is, currently I do...
So I’ve just put this site live while I sit here waiting for a mate to arrive. Hopefully I’ll get round to blogging a lot more now, I keep meaning to but always forget somehow. As of Monday, I get to jump into a four month project, re-building a booking system which should be interesting. I expect I’ll write about my progress and any cool tricks I find along the way. Anyway...