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.
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 […]
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 switched from developing using Vagrant with VVV to using the new Mac app Pressmatic. I’ve been very happy, and so has my Mac—the dev environment runs much faster and my computer has been working a lot less. Less fan noise is good. The server environment that Pressmatic uses don’t have some basic stuff that […]
Working with Google Maps v3 is way fun. If you’re a masochist. It seems like there’s no easy way to set the width of an InfoWindow. You can set the minWidth parameter, but that does nothing. If you have content that exceeds the InfoWindow window, you get this: a scrolling box. That’s terrible. The solution […]
There have been many articles and conversations about the question of how to get the URL of a Google search in Safari 6. Some solutions include using the Terminal to get the URL, using AppleScript,  using bookmarklets, and using Automator. I created a Safari Extension to make this process easier. Get URL: Easily get the URL […]
If you’re like me, you’ve wanted to have the Googlebot user agent availalbe in the Develop menu of Safari. Go to /Applications/ Right-click on Safari.app and select Show Package Contents Navigate to Contents/Resources/ Find `UserAgents.plist` Open `UserAgents.plist` in your favorite text editor Either Replace with the contents of this file and continue to step 9: [download id=”12″] […]
Here’s another specialized plugin development tip! If you want to create a link to activate a plugin, you need to know the path of the plugin file. Let’s use Akismet for this example. $path = ‘akismet/akismet.php’; $link = wp_nonce_url(admin_url(‘plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=’.$path), ‘activate-plugin_’.$path); The `$link` URL will be something like http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&_wpnonce=f97dabdf9
If you want to define a Google Analytics “UA String” while using Yoast Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. Add the following to your theme’s `functions.php` file: add_filter( ‘option_Yoast_Google_Analytics’, ‘custom_ua_string_filter’); function custom_ua_string_filter($options = array()) { $options[‘uastring’] = ‘UA-########-#’; $options[‘manual_uastring’] = true; return $options; } For users of WordPress Multisite, this will allow you to pre-configure new blogs […]
I have previously written on how to determine if a widget is active. This is helpful for widgets, but not for plugins. WordPress has a couple of different functions that help you determine plugin status. They are both located in wp-includes/plugin.php `validate_plugin()` spits out an error if the plugin file does not  exist or has […]
I use Panic Coda for coding. I like its Mac-style interface and it “fits” me well. There are some items that are frustrating, including a lack of auto-complete for functions you’ve already used in your code. Here are three tips to improve your coding experience.
Developers: reveal.js is a great standards-compliant slideshow script. It looks great and is an awesome alternative to Flash-based or image-based slideshows. reveal.js
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most URL shortener services. Some of the downsides of using link shorteners are: Google Analytics doesn’t […]
I was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features: Good statistics that are visible only to administrators Edit the long URLs after generating shortened links …but not one service has both features: http://sn.im has editable URLs, a bookmarklet, but no stats. Oh, and […]
The CubeCart file and image uploader in the product editor only allows for a small set of file types: jpg, gif, jpeg, png, swf, fla, jpg, gif, jpeg, png, avi, mpg, and mpeg. If you want to upload a PDF in CubeCart, you will have to manually FTP it into the uploads folder, and even […]
WordPress.org plugin page layout change likely for usability A couple of weeks ago, WordPress.org changed the layout of their plugins directory plugin pages. The update was likely to improve usability for users trying to determine whether a plugin is trustworthy and what it does. I believe the re-arranging of the page has achieved those goals. […]
This has been done many times by others, but just a quick tip on how to add or remove www. from your website’s address. This is helpful for URL canonicalization and user experience consistency. You can also achieve SEO-friendly canonicalization using rel=”canonical”. Oh boy, I’m getting too technical 🙂 Here’s the juicy part: Add the […]
When you would use excluded categories: When using WordPress as more of a content management system (CMS) than a blogging platform, there are many things that you need control over. One of them is special-case categories. Frequently asked questions Testimonials Case studies Press releases When you have a category of posts that you don’t want […]
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