Month: May 2020

I want to share my development setup and talk about how I do things these days. This post is has two main sections. Part one covers the tools I use, and part two will cover my workflow ie. how I perform common tasks. Part 1: The Tools Local Web Server Local by Flywheel I’ve used … Read moreWordPress Development Workflow by Chris Allen

While WordPress is known for making content management rather simple, the depth of this CMS is surprisingly vast. There are multiple facets to discover, but you can learn about them on an as-needed basis. For example, if you’re goal is to just input and edit content, you probably won’t need to learn about theme development. … Read more40 Cheatsheets for WordPress Design & Development

I don’t use print_r() exclusively to inspect variables: two other methods, var_dump() and echo, can work similarly. echo, the main PHP function that prints things out to the page, can be used to inspect variables. However, it only works on strings and things that can be easily cast to strings, like integers. If you try to echo an array, you get just Array, … Read moreprint_r(), var_dump(), and echo

As print_r() spits ugly markup onto the page, running it on live sites is not advised. print_r() is for debugging, and the best place to debug things is in a staging environment. As print_r() spits ugly markup onto the page, running it on live sites is not advised—although possible if you don’t have alternatives. If you do need to run … Read moreprint_r() more responsibly

  // Add a new checkout field add_filter( ‘woocommerce_checkout_fields’, ‘kia_filter_checkout_fields’ ); function kia_filter_checkout_fields($fields){ $fields[‘extra_fields’] = array( ‘payment_type’ => array( ‘type’ => ‘select’, ‘class’ => array( ‘form-row-first’ ), ‘options’ => array( ” => __( ‘Please select’ ), ‘Credit Card’ => __( ‘Credit Card’ ), ‘Net 30’ => __( ‘Net 30’ ) ), ‘required’ => true, ‘default’ … Read moreAdd payment type dropdown to checkout form

  remove_action(‘load-update-core.php’,’wp_update_plugins’); add_filter(‘pre_site_transient_update_plugins’,’__return_null’);