To quickly debug something, or temporarily show the data object during development, just to know what you’re working with, it comes in handy to print the full JSON object. Not as a string that’s almost impossible to read, but as a well formatted array. We’ve got a neat little one-liner for that, which I’ll share […]

When working with the WordPress REST API we sometimes have to update custom post meta for a (custom post type) post. In my case, I am using the available REST endpoints but I did want to add some extra data to the GET request, and wanted to make it possible to update that data as […]

In this post we’ll go through the steps of updating a post in WordPress using the Fetch API in Javascript. We’ll focus on authenticated users in the front or backend of WordPress and use the nonce that’s available on every page. A snippet to update a post in the WordPress REST API In the snippet […]

Another short snippet-style article for today; How do you get the current term or taxonomy object in WordPress? Sometimes, when developing plugins or themes, you need to get more details on the current term page the website visitor is looking at. We can load term meta by using get_term_meta functions, but what if we want […]

Another short blog post that allows you to quickly copy the command to get you a human readable database size from wp-cli. wp db size shows you bytes. We can’t read that. Let’s make it human readable: It doesn’t get easier than that, Happy developing!

An easy way to copy code blocks from the WordPress Block Editor A plugin that I wanted to create for a while already, especially for this very site. Download the plugin here Example: Checkout the Github repo: https://github.com/mklasen/copy-code-blocks/

Update: It appeared the solution below still had some horizontal scrolling/spacing issues. I’ve created a plugin to solve these. In order to solve these issues once and for all, I’ve created a plugin that updates the Swiper instance created by Elementor. Click here to download the plugin, or visit the Github repository After activating the […]

The WordPress REST API has become the go-to for any communication between the front-end and back-end. We’ve come a long way, from using admin-ajax to a professional, flexible and extendible REST API. Registering routes Registering a REST endpoint is pretty easy, below you’ll find some ready-to-use code, including the plugin headers. This is everything you […]