A while back, WordPress.com enabled SSH access for Business and eCommerce plans. I recently had a look at what those environments look like. First test: WP-CLI commands. It’s great to see that commands like wp db export work just fine. You’re also allowed to create folders in the home directory, so we can easily export […]

Since in this case i’m using ACF to define the taxonomies for a custom post type, I wanted to remove the metabox in the sidebar. Luckily, there’s no custom code required for this. We just need to set meta_box_cb to false. Did you know about show_admin_column as well? This argument allows you to show or […]

It is one of these days again. I’m breaking my head on this. And on those moments, I grab my blog and start writing an article about this specific problem. So let’s have a look. By default, 20 entries are returned. I need more, I need all! get_entries has 5 parameters, the form_id, search_criteria, sorting, […]

This is one of these things that I broke my head around a couple of times. And every time I need to do this, it takes me a fair amount of trial and error before solving it. Let’s get that over once and for all. (seriously, i’ll probably Google for this issue in about 6 […]

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 […]