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 form because the first was being used for an integration with Zapier. We need to…

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 meta value in database.”, “data”: { “key”: “meta_key_name”, “status”: 500 } } This error comes…

WordPress 4.9.4 does not support the post_parent attribute in the REST API, so I wrote a plugin that does. Download here: https://github.com/csalzano/wp-api-add-post-parent Someday, WordPress core will allow the manipulation of the post_parent attribute, and I look forward to deleting this plugin and this blog post when they become obsolete. Until then, I believe this implementation resembles…

WooCommerce is a big plugin that ships with several JavaScript loading animations. There is no reason to roll your own when you need one. This week, I am hacking on WooCommerce to convert “Add to Cart” buttons to prevent redirecting users to different pages. Here’s a great tutorial I used to accomplish this goal. Without…

Yesterday, I needed to create a modal, but I didn’t want to create a modal. “Surely, this is already in WordPress.”Corey Salzano So, I went looking for a modal in WordPress core, and I was delighted when I found one. Thickbox is JavaScript library that was created more than one decade ago and began shipping with…

Logged out users of a website hosted at WPEngine may receive cached responses to REST API calls via the GET method. API calls work correctly while logged in, but paths in the /wp-json/ directory are cached like much like the rest of the front-end. How to prevent cached REST API responses As of June 2017,…

A few months ago, popular people in the WordPress community (including Matt) made a push to stop using the user name “admin.” A considerably-sized brute force attack targeted this user name specifically since so many users never change or create an administrator with another name. I followed the wisdom of the crowd and this post…

I’ve built another plugin for WordPress websites with open registration. This plugin makes it easy to prevent spam accounts from publishing posts. Frequently asked questions What does this thing do? This plugin adds an item to the Users menu of your administration dashboard. Click the “Clobber Spam” link and you will see a page that…

I wrote a new plugin to list the contributors to a WordPress website. The comment and post counts are added together, and the top X users are listed in a simple table alongside the counts. Download top-users-by-comment-plus-post-count.zip. Installation instructions Upload the `top-users-by-comment-plus-post-count` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in…

I just wrote a new plugin to disable commenter names from linking to the website URLs they may provide when commenting. Some themes allow commenters to provide a home page URL along with their comment. The comment author’s name then becomes a link to that website wherever it appears on your site. This plugin removes…

Bottom of every post is a WordPress plugin I wrote in July of 2011. This plugin is a simple filter that adds some content to the bottom of each post. I thought for sure a plugin like this would already exist, and I was surprised to find a few very complex solutions with way more…