Here are 7 examples of simple plugins you can write to get started with WordPress plugin development. Plugins in the WordPress repository should try to serve a single purpose. The “single purpose” concept is so the author can maintain the code more easily and so the end-user that doesn’t have […]
Cleveland GiveCamp 2018 Recap
Note: I wrote this recap back in July, but somehow forgot to publish the blog post version and only sent this recap to my coworkers. Whoops! 🙂 Figured I owed it to the organizers to get this post out, though! This year I volunteered at an event called Cleveland GiveCamp. […]
Password Security During Reset Process
I wanted to share this article about websites/applications’ password reset process by Troy Hunt. It has a ton of information and examples of how to securely store passwords (with encryption and 1-way hashing), what username enumeration is, what a persistent password is, the purpose of CAPTCHAs, secret questions, etc. On […]
Why is my shortcode content showing before other content?
If you have created a shortcode but it’s showing up before the other content on your WordPress site, it might be because you used an “” instead of a “” in your callback function. add_shortcode() Incorrect: Correct:
How Much Do I Want To Spend on Housing?
I’ve been reading and listening to a ton of personal finance blogs and podcasts lately. Namely, Mad Fientist, the YNAB podcast, and starting to dip into MMM. I’m trying to wrap my head around if I want to be spending 25% of my income on my house. I realize that the […]
My Name is Changing Wednesday!
I’m reinventing myself as my original self on Wednesday. The last 11 months have been a wild ride. One where I’ve learned a lot. I learned a lot about those around me, their capacity for supporting me, about Ohio dissolution law (and about interesting tangentially-related laws that seem decades behind where […]
Breaking vs Non-Breaking Plugin Changes
If you’re anything like me, when you open up old files, you like to clean them up while working in them. It only adds a small amount of time to your work and is the most convenient time to “get around” to cleaning things up. There are some things we […]
When is wpautop() going to grow up?
Every time I look at this function, I wonder when someone will rename the argument and the variables and . The Code Refactoring section in the Contributor Handbook suggests not to focus on style fixes, but I’m not sure if renaming variables is considered refactoring in terms of WordPress. “[Refactoring […]
I’m Speaking at WordCamp Jackson on Saturday!
After a little over 2 years since my first speaking gig at WordCamp Columbus, I’m getting my head back in the game. I’ll be talking about the “human side” of testing, which I’ve talked about on my blog briefly before (Testing Plugin/Theme Updates & Testing Updates for Your Clients). So come to […]
Another Weird WordPress Mystery
I found this in a theme’s functions.php file: So this function only affects admins who cannot administrator…