Yep – it’s necessary. I really need to dig into that page load; what’s happening in this evironment and why? It’s time to setup xdebug and webgrind. We’ll use the Geniem Oy’s images and repo for the foundation. I’m specifically interested in the webgrind service, and will add this to my docker-compose.yml file: I will […]

Every now and then I make a change in my development environment and.. I am back at re-configuring the whole setup. Let’s get that over with once and for all. The setup that works This is my environment: Visual Studio Code with PHP Sniffer by wongjn Composer with squizlabs/php_codesniffer wp-coding-standards/wpcs The root of my workspace […]

While working on a project in which I wanted to automatically process any CSV files uploaded to the media library I encountered some issues with WordPress.com not allowing this file type. After an upload, WordPress.com kept buggin me with: 1 file could not be uploaded because the file type is not supported. Filters like mime_types […]

For a recent project, I wanted to link to external Google Analytics reports. The links of Google Analytics dashboard pages are a bit.. complicated though. Have a look at the example below: I reached out to Google support, but they weren’t able to assist me with this. So I started having a better look, and […]

I wanted to remove the home/dashboard menu item in the Woocommerce my account dashboard and found a great snippet to redirect the visitors from the dashboard to another page upon arrival. This way both the menu item is gone and the page is inaccessible. I found the snippet on Misha Rudrastyh‘s website, in the following […]

A while back I wanted to show/hide a box on my website based on the location of the visitor. There’s a couple of options to get the user location: Use an API which you send the IP address to and get a location back (find services by googling “geolocation ip address api”) Ask for the […]

As the WordPress Plugin and Theme repositories are growing the names of custom plugins and themes are running out. What if you create a theme or plugin with a name that’s already used in the WordPress repository? In that case, WordPress will ask you to update it, and that could lead to disastrous events. Since […]

Lately I’ve seen errors in my local development environments: This causes my database container to get stuck in a restarting loop. The fix? Downgrade the mariadb version! The database part of docker compose was configured like this: The version used on my system is mariadb 10.8.3, apparently that version can cause issues like this. After […]

Ever find yourself in a spot where you need to integrate work from another branch into your current branch? Well.. I was surprised to find out it’s much easier than I expected! It’s literally nothing more than the command below Thought I’d share this little snippet with all of you, Happy developing!