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Redirecting After Plugin Activation

Occasionally when building a WordPress plugin, you may want to have the plugin immediately show its settings page after activation. I don’t typically like this practice because it’s an unexpected change to the standard WordPress user experience, but in certain…

William
March 6, 2020
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WordPress

Jumping Into Javascript – WordCamp Sacramento 2019

Here are the slides and resource links for my Jumping Into JavaScript talk at WordCamp Sacramento. I want to apologize to those who attended for the shortened talk. I wanted to do some demos at the end of using build…

William
September 22, 2019

WordPress

Forcing New Sites to HTTPS in a WordPress Multisite Subdomain Network

I had an old coworker reach out today about the multisite network I used to work on at UNC. It’s set up as a subdomain installation and new sites that were being created were not automatically being set to HTTPS…

William
June 20, 2019
5 Comments

WordPress

How to Disable Tests in the WordPress Site Health Check Tool

WordPress Site Health Status page showing all tests passing

Depending on your server setup, there may be tests in the new WordPress Site Health tool that are not relevant to your site and will never pass. Here is how to disable individual tests so you can get back to 💯

William
May 8, 2019
8 Comments

WordPress

WordCamp Raleigh 2019

We wrapped up a successful WordCamp Raleigh earlier today and I figured I should write a quick post about it while it was still fresh in my mind. I also wanted to make sure I got a copy of my…

William
April 7, 2019

WordPress

The Gutenberg Complexity Fallacy

A common trend in complaints about the new editor is that the equivalent process in the classic editor was faster and required fewer steps. I think in most cases this isn't true.

William
November 2, 2018
26 Comments

WordPress

Debugging WordPress Core with VSCode

To facilitate working on WordPress, I wanted to set up both PHP debugging using xDebug and Javascript debugging using Chrome within VSCode for WordPress-Develop.

William
October 25, 2018
2 Comments

WordPress

VSCode Chrome Debugger and Gutenberg

While working on a recent issue in Gutenberg, I needed to do some javascript debugging. Normally I'd just do this in Chrome using the dev tools, but I decided to see if I could get the VSCode Chrome debugger working to be able to do it directly inside the IDE.

William
October 22, 2018

WordPress

Fixing Local Development Connection Issues with VPNs

How to fix connection issues when using VVV or Local by Flywheel while on a VPN.

William
September 24, 2018