I was surprised to learn that when editing a page using Elementor‘s page builder, is_admin() returns false. The reason for this is that Elementor is loading the page in an <iframe> element as if it were being viewed on the…

Here is a comment I just requested be added to the bottom of the register_setting() page. If you plan to use your setting in the REST API, use both the rest_api_init and admin_init hooks when calling register_setting() instead of just admin_init. The show_in_rest argument is ineffective when hooked into admin_init alone.…

I wrote a plugin to customize the Events List widget that ships with Modern Tribe’s The Events Calendar Pro plugin. The widget has an option to hide completely when there are no upcoming events. The alternative displays the dreaded “There…

Here are some JavaScript snippets to manipulate WP_Term objects in WordPress using the REST API and the Backbone JavaScript client library. Insert a term Delete a term This next example assumes you’ve used wp_localize_script() to make the REST API endpoint…

Here is a file you could save in wp-content/your-theme/tribe-events/month/content.php that will disable tooltips on the month view calendar produced by The Events Calendar plugin. This is a template override for the month view that adds a few lines of JavaScript…

For a ContactForm7 form that has this source: <div class=”wpcf7-lead-widget”>[text* contact-name maxlength:50 placeholder “Your Name (required)”] [email* email maxlength:50 placeholder “Email (required)”] [text phone maxlength:15 placeholder “Phone”] [vehicle_form_field] [textarea comments x3 placeholder “Questions and Comments”] [submit class:_button class:_button-small “Check Availability”]…

Exporting a GravityView and importing it into a different site is easy, and there are official instructions right here. This process works very smoothly when the GravityForms and GravityViews on both sites are identical. That’s usually not the world I…

The easiest way to remove the “Go Back” link from the single entry view of any GravityView is to enter a single space into the Back Link Label setting field under the view’s settings. I tried to find an appropriate…

When using register_rest_field() to add fields to terms in the WordPress REST API, the $object sent to your get_callback function will be an array instead of an object like the documentation describes. An object will still be passed, sometimes, too.…

Elementor Pro includes a form builder widget, complete with a webhook to which all form data can be sent and a redirect URL to send users after successful submissions. I have been tasked with adding a second webhook to a…

You can’t. It’s not possible in Gravity Forms 2.3. Do this instead. The third parameter to get_entries() is not designed to accept more than one sort field. Use array_multisort() to sort the array output of get_entries() like this: $entries =…

Take care when updating posts via the WordPress REST API to not send unchanged serialized meta values. The entire update will fail and return a 500 error. The JSON response looks like this: { “code”: “rest_meta_database_error”, “message”: “Could not update…