Working in web and eCommerce since the early 00s
My blog focusses on web development, along with occasional posts about my hobbies and interests.
Discover how to access your database through the WordPress dashboard by utilising the WP Adminer plugin, especially useful when you do not have access to the database directly. What is WP Adminer? The WP Adminer plugin is a tool designed for WordPress users who would like to manage their database from the WordPress dashboard. This …
Do you use VS Code and add comments, such as TODO, FIXME, BUG, etc? Then there’s a neat extension available, which you can use to show a tree view of these types of comments. What is Todo Tree? The Todo Tree extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) gives developers visibility over comments added within …
When you clone a WordPress plugin, you’ll often need to run build scripts to build a usable version of the plugin in your WordPress plugins directory. You can create a symlink in your plugins directory to the plugin instead of cloning the repository to your WordPress installation directly. Prerequisites Before creating a symlink, you’ll need …
Query Monitor is a WordPress plugin that includes several debugging tools, including a profiling feature that you can use to investigate running time and memory usage of specific code, find out more below. What is Query Monitor? As you’ve come across this blog post, you probably already know what Query Monitor is, skip this if …
I recently submitted a pull request to WooCommerce core, which adds some consistency to the descriptions of textarea fields in WooCommerce settings, and the ability to set an attribute to make the description appear before or after the textarea field. This contribution has been reviewed, merged, and is scheduled for release in WooCommerce v9.6.0. Text …
Want to create your own dashboard widget that appears when you log in to the WordPress dashboard? You can do it in a few lines of code, once you have the widget setup, you can then concentrate on writing the functionality for the contents of the widget. What are dashboard widgets? Dashboard widgets are shown …
In WooCommerce, product prices by default are displayed as “$5.00” for simple products and “$5.00 – $20.00” for variable products. Ever wanted to add text before or after the pricing display, like this: “Only $5.00” or “$5.00 limited time only”? There are a number of plugins that can help do this, but maybe you want to do …
If you’ve ever tried to upload an image in WordPress that has large dimensions, you may have noticed that the resulting file has smaller dimensions than the original image. This is because WordPress has a threshold for the maximum image dimensions, and if your image is higher than that threshold, it will get scaled. You …