I made this icon for a twitter account I started a while ago, @LancasterBeacon. News, culture & events in and around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Follow @LancasterBeacon
Spinners and loading animations built into WooCommerce
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… Continue reading Spinners and loading animations built into WooCommerce
Thickbox.js: a modal API hidden in WordPress core
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… Continue reading Thickbox.js: a modal API hidden in WordPress core
How to find WordPress theme’s stylesheet handle
A few moments ago, I wanted to append an inline style to the theme’s stylesheet from within a plugin. This requires knowing the current theme’s stylesheet handle, so here is a function that finds that string. private function find_theme_stylesheet_handle() { global $wp_styles; foreach( $wp_styles->registered as $handle => $style_obj ) { if( $style_obj->src === get_template_directory_uri() .… Continue reading How to find WordPress theme’s stylesheet handle
How to fix WordPress filter robots_txt not working
WordPress provides a filter hook, robots_txt, that dynamically generates robots.txt if the file does not exist. This filter allows developers to create unique robots.txt files for each site in a multisite network, since all the sites in the network share the same root directory (and therefore the same robots.txt file). If this filter is not… Continue reading How to fix WordPress filter robots_txt not working
Lititz Craft Beer Fest Homebrew Competition 2017
11×17 poster hung in and around Lititz to promote the 2017 Homebrew Competition
WPEngine caches WordPress REST API GET responses
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,… Continue reading WPEngine caches WordPress REST API GET responses
A monogram for my brother
I created this monogram for my older brother, an artist who uses the elements of nature. Aaron Salzano
How To Market An Event On Twitter
While writing the companion piece, What It’s Like To Co-Organize Your First WordCamp, I realized that I had created a list of Twitter marketing tips that should really live in their own post. Here’s that. I run a number of Twitter accounts, and some people seem to enjoy following them. A few of them, @LititzBeerFest and @WordCampLanc promote… Continue reading How To Market An Event On Twitter
What It’s Like To Co-Organize Your First WordCamp
I helped organize WordCamp Lancaster 2017. I was a rookie and had not worked on a WordCamp before. As soon as I had agreed to join the organizing team, I went searching for a post like this and didn’t find many. There are a few good ones about organizing a WordCamp in a city that… Continue reading What It’s Like To Co-Organize Your First WordCamp
Beer can labels for St. Boniface
https://www.instagram.com/p/BN1qDbfD3iQ/?taken-by=stbonifacebrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BNHUst6Df_F/?taken-by=stbonifacebrew St. Boniface Craft Brewing Co. is releasing some very limited 16 ounce cans lately, and they asked me to re-imagine their can label (not designed by me) for these special releases.
How to extract passwords from Core FTP LE
If you are like me and have maintained a copy of Core FTP LE simply because there is no easy way to extract passwords from the application, follow these instructions to set yourself free. No download or payment required A lot of the solutions available cost money or require you to install software. This is… Continue reading How to extract passwords from Core FTP LE