PHP has some handy Date classes, including one for specifying date intervals. But you need to be wary of some idiosyncrasies, as I just found out. Continue reading PHP DateInterval can’t have both weeks and days
TIL that you need to give Gravity Forms add-ons some capabilities, otherwise they might disappear from the WordPress admin. Continue reading Gravity Forms add-ons need to have capabilities
When you configure exim4 as your email transport, you will likely need to tell it to replace some user names with aliases. To make your life simpler, use wildcards to do the job for you. Continue reading exim4 with wildcard email aliases
Sometimes the WooCommerce out of stock message isn’t quite appropriate. Here’s a couple of ways to change that message. Continue reading Customise WooCommerce out of stock message
Ever needed to search for a post by something other than the title or post content? If you’ve built a website with custom post types that have additional fields, it’s a good chance that admins will need to search on your custom meta. Continue reading Searching custom meta on custom post types
Wow. It’s been over a year since my last blog post. 2016 seems to have just steamrolled over me. This is not good! But I’m not going to let 2016 beat me completely, so there will be a few blog posts over the next few weeks. Get back in your box, 2016, I’m not done.
I still get the occasional Classic ASP VBScript maintenance job from time to time, and it reminds me of the language statements it just doesn’t have. Like “continue”, great for skipping a bunch of logic inside a For loop. Turns out, there is a nice simple way to get that functionality. Continue reading VBScript For Next and Continue
If you accept user input and then export it as CSV, please read this now! James Kettle very neatly explains how something as simple as a CSV export can be used to deliver exploits. I didn’t know about this before today; hat tip to Gravity Forms and, via them, Ninja Forms.
Gravity Forms normally loads its stylesheets in the page head, where they belong. It does that only on pages which have forms, which is nice. If you use a widget to host your form, however, it can’t detect that until it renders the widget… too late to load the stylesheets in the head. At that point, it just pulls them directly into the page body. Continue reading Load Gravity Forms stylesheets in page head
Events Manager is a really nice, easy to customise plugin for showing events on WordPress websites. One gripe I always have with it is that the location maps zoom when you use the mouse scroll wheel, something I always turn off when I add a map to a page. Here’s how to fix it. Continue reading Disable scroll wheel on Events Manager location maps