Zack Katz is the founder of GravityKit and TrustedLogin. He lives in Leverett, Massachusetts with his wife Juniper.
It was the summer of 2014. I had been working long nights for 8 months developing my new plugin alongside Luis. I had set a launch deadline, so the crunch was on: writing website content, creating documentation, fixing bugs, and learning as I went about how to build hype and develop an email list. Finally, […]
I am more excited about the Apple Vision Pro, coming early next month, than I am about any other tech announcement since the original iPhone. I’ve been recording many spatial videos on my iPhone 15 Pro, experimenting with the types of videos I will want to watch. What types of video will work best in […]
What happens when Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and project lead, violates the community code of conduct?
I rarely want to clear the cache after toggling a plugin. But I always want to hide this message. Are you tired of seeing the WP Rocket WordPress admin notice “One or more plugins have been enabled or disabled, clear the cache if they affect the front end of your site.” message? Add this PHP […]
Hello, Dan 👋 On the last episode, you said you get Google Alerts for the name of the podcast. So, hi! I appreciate you! For those reading this who are not Dan McCoy, check out The Flop House! It’s a wonderful podcast of three friends having fun and being funny while talking about bad movies. […]
Easy Digital Downloads was recently acquired by Awesome Motive as part of their acquisition of all the Sandhills Development WordPress plugins. EDD, created and led by Pippin Williamson, had a history of not pushing their other products aggressively with in-dash notifications and upsells. Awesome Motive—developers of OptinMonster, MonsterInsights, WPForms, and more—have used in-dash notifications and […]
Help Scout Docs makes it hard to organize content on the home page, so Help Scout are using categories that redirect to articles. This looks like a category in Help Scout: The link points to a category page: https://docs.helpscout.com/category/832-getting-started And the category even shows there are 8 articles! But when you click the Getting Started […]
Doxygen doesn’t recognize the @type docblock tag. That’s a problem, since at GravityView, we try to replicate WordPress core’s usage of the @type docblock tags to define nested values in associative arrays. The fix? Add an ALIAS in Doxygen where @type is treated as @param. Here’s how:
I wanted to learn what data is sent by the UserVoice Inspector Gadgets (I do appreciate the name 😉), but there was no information I could find online. Here’s some basic information about the HTTP request that is made by the Gadget.
Strolling past each booth of fresh-cut flowers and freshly-gathered eggs, my wife and I stopped at a booth carrying bread. Next to the booth, a man in a cycling outfit was doing yoga in the afternoon sun. He came over and he explained the rye: it was dark, perfect with cream cheese and jam. He […]
I formally take The Pledge: At a public conference I won’t serve on a panel of two people or more unless there is at least one woman on the panel, not including the Chair. I want more diversity in tech and in the world. I pledge to try to make diversity a reality, and then […]
TLDR: If you want faster credit card AJAX load times in EDD, disable the “Show previously used cards” setting in EDD. Hint: It only happens when you or a customer are logged-in. I’ve recently found that it can take up to 8 seconds for the credit card fields to load when working on the GravityView […]
If you click the “Re-run database upgrade” link in Gravity Forms’ System Status page, and it doesn’t properly generate the {prefix}_gf_addon_feed table, here’s the likely problem: The Feed Addon that you have installed is likely not being activated early enough. This is about to get techy: The “Re-run database upgrade” script is triggered by the […]
At GravityView, we’re starting a review process for support to make sure that as we grow, our support continues to be awesome. We’re starting a Support Review meeting. We will randomly choose tickets to review for each person who has provided support in that time. Random selection is a pain, so we created a Zapier […]
Last year, GravityView was using PayPal Pro to process credit card transations with our shopping cart, Easy Digital Downloads. Over time, we became frustrated with the error rate of PayPal notifications: PayPal kept telling us the country code wasn’t set. But it was. This was preventing customers from checking out, so GravityView switched to using […]
Since GravityView launched in 2014, we have used Transifex to manage translations. Our process has always relied on a single translation resource file, and we’ve had the same flow over time: Create an update with new strings Upload the translation file to Transifex Release the update In the next minor release, include any new translations […]
I have used Fluid for years to create single-page native web applications that run on my Mac. I have one for Help Scout, I have another for Trello, but I have noticed a problem: when replying to tickets in Help Scout, I would experience serious lag. Letters would appear hundreds of milliseconds after I typed. […]
I will be presenting the WordCamp Denver 2017 keynote on August 26, 2017. It’s a privilege, and I’m looking forward to it! If you don’t have tickets yet, it’s not too late—get a ticket now. See you soon! I will update this post with the slides once they are available, and I will also have “show notes”—a […]
Update: this failed spectacularly. Didn’t work. Bad idea. I feel like many of my tweets could (and should) be short articles on my blog, but I’m lazy. I’m setting up a Zap t… https://t.co/C3jHX8CVid pic.twitter.com/TKpyUtJZ7f — Zack Katz (@zackkatz) Sat Jun 03 18:00:01 +0000 2017 I think the pendulum of social media may have swung […]
I did not know Gwen was sick. I didn’t know she had cancer. On Monday, she died. I respected her and found comfort in her presence. I trusted Gwen to tell me the truth, to find humanity in any situation, to always reflect appropriate levels of concern. I trusted Gwen Ifill completely. Not because she was on TV, but […]
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