Corey Salzano

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”] [hidden context id:context “contact”] [hidden do-not-send-mail]</div> The $posted_data that is passed via the wpcf7_posted_data hook… Continue reading What is $posted_data passed to Contact Form 7’s wpcf7_posted_data hook

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 Gravity Forms and GravityViews on both sites are identical. That’s usually not the world I live in, however. I’m a back-end developer in sites that sometimes have multiple teams… Continue reading Migrating a GravityView Without Losing Fields

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. Here is an example of how I work around this problem: function add_api_term_fields() { //location-phone-hours… Continue reading Sometimes, an array is passed to the get_callback provided to register_rest_field() instead of an object

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… Continue reading How to add an additional webhook to an Elementor Form

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… Continue reading WordPress REST API returns 500 error when updating serialized meta with an unchanged value

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… Continue reading Setting post_parent with the WordPress REST API