WP_List_Table is a reasonably flexible way of creating data tables in WordPress Admin Plugins. While there are plenty of warnings and words of caution against using WP_List_Table throughout the WordPress documentation and elsewhere on the Internet, it is a very popular method in use by …
PHP, for example, has var_dump() and print_r() to facilitate quick variable dumps to log files, etc. For Javascript, one can use console.log() in combination with JSON.stringify() to achieve something similar. console.log( JSON.stringify(object) ); It’s also possible to “pretty-print” the output like so: console.log( JSON.stringify(object, null, …
Cloudbridge Mattermost is a WordPress plugin that provides integration between WordPress and Mattermost. In the initial release, we focus on login notifications (successful, failed, unknown) from the various WordPress user roles. We will, of course, be adding more functionality in the future. You can download …
While writing a WordPress plugin that displays the available user roles, I came across a snag: the user roles that I had fetched from WordPress weren’t translated into the site’s current language. I’m not quite sure I understand the reasoning behind this since WordPress offers …
Having recently upgraded a small VPS from Ubuntu 18.04.LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.LTS, I ran into a little snag with Emacs and its color-theme (from the emacs-goodies-el package). After some digging, it seems this is now done somewhat differently in Ubuntu 20.04.LTS. This is what my …
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating environment and how things were/are configured. These assumptions were based on a development environment that …
Using WebDAV to access Nextcloud resources is a pretty nice way to write integrations for Nextcloud. While adding support for Nextcloud file browsing in a service we’re constantly improving, I ran into a minor snag: How to format the WebDAV “SEARCH” request when interfacing with …
Using the APIs over at trafiklab.se can yield some quite useful results. I needed to be able to display the commute stop departure times for public transport in a given place, so I wrote this WordPress plugin called Stopsign. It uses the Trafiklab.se API. The …
Please don’t write code that generates e-mail messages if you are unable to read specifications. Thank you.
I’ve been using SwiftMailer for as long as I can remember because it’s, IMHO, a great library and far more logical than PHPMailer and “others”. While maintaining a PHP5 codebase for a rather large project, I ran into an issue while using ISO-8859-15 encoded data. …