Author: corey

Entry approval is a Gravity View feature I use often. Even if I’m not using Gravity View on a project that needs to filter out some entries, I’ll save the same data in the $wpdb->_gf_entry_meta table to be compatible. The meta key is_approved contains one of the values in the table below. Entry is_approved meta…

I replicated wordpress.org’s code reference system for my own project. WordPress provides a template tag get_the_title() and it’s documented at https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_title/. A plugin I just launched provides a template tag invp_get_the_price() and it’s documented at https://inventorypresser.com/docs/reference/functions/invp_get_the_price/ I learned that the .org docs page content is generated by scanning the project source code, extracting PHPDoc comments,…

I built a WordPress plugin that saves a copy of all Gravity Forms entries in a Google Sheet as they are received. Entries to Google Sheet is the glue between a Gravity Form and a Google Sheet. https://entriestogooglesheet.com

This is confusing: calls to get_fields() find no Advanced Custom Fields values saved with a specific post, but calls to get_field() find values for the same post. This happens when ACF did not insert the field values, and the secondary value with the meta_key beginning with an underscore does not exist. The post has the…

Migrate Specific Posts or Attachments With a Third WordPress Install Duplicate the Site and Delete Posts That Won’t Move The Built-in Tools > Export Feature Preserves Post IDs An easy way to move WordPress content from one site to another is with the built-in XML import and export scripts located under the Tools menu. This…

I have written and released a bash script that extracts WordPress websites and updates their local copies in my computer. It’s called exfil, it’s free and open-source, and lives on Github at https://github.com/csalzano/exfil/. To celebrate it’s release, I demoed exfil at the August 2020 burbswp.com virtual meetup, “What I’ve Learned Since Lockdowns Started”. I plan…

Out of the box, The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress is amazing and a pleasure to work with as a developer. However, it does not show users Media Library uploads that are attached to event posts. I made a plugin to bring this functionality to the Single Event view, it’s free and open-source, and you…

As of this writing, it is not possible to delete a meta value using the WordPress REST API. Post meta updates must be communicated while inserting and updating post objects, and the only way to “remove” meta fields is to write blank values over their current values. I wrote a free and open-source plugin to…