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I have recently updated my Never Loose Contact form plugin for WordPress websites. I originally wrote it because I wanted a simple Spam proof contact form that saved the messages to a database, in case the emails went AWOL. In it’s first few iterations it blocked contact form messages with more than 2 hyperlinks in […]
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While updating a WordPress plugin recently I wanted to enable the block editor for a custom post type. Strangely, it is not automatic.After a quick Google, I discovered I needed to add ‘show_in_rest’=>true and ‘supports’=>array(‘editor’) to the arguments for the register_post_type function. All well and good, but no title field appears at the top of […]
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I got an error on a booking system for a conference I was trying to book into this week. I happen to live in a town that has an apostrophe in the name and it crashed the booking system and worse gave the query in the error on screen. OopsThe error message made it clear […]
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After a recent upgrade, some of my MySQL queries stopped working – where it was a DATE column with a default already set to 0000-00-00. That’s not allowed for MySQL v5.7.11 and above. Not simple to change because the error keeps occuring. Here’s how I got round it UPDATE table SET column= “1000-01-01” WHERE column<“1000-01-01”; […]
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What a pain! Push notifications work when the app is in the foreground, but had stopped when the app is in the background. I’d update my app too! I am using cordova-plugin-firebase, which is being kept upto date more than cordova-plugin-fcm There are 2 reason for this that I have found! 1) XCode 11 doesn’t […]
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Today I was getting a white screen when trying to simulate my latest Cordova App on iOS using XCode 11. The debug messages weren’t helpful. NSURLConnection finished with error – code -1100 2019-11-03 18:41:25.312124+0000 Plumbers Mate[9951:3513187] Finished load of: file:///Users/Andy/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6B89E196-7C29-4879-A5C3-1749D1063D16/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/76725DD0-4577-4BC9-8192-0E6A92394C9D/Plumbers%20Mate.app/www/index.html I spent ages Googling “NSURLConnection finished with error – code -1100” to discover it was […]
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I was once with a client who changed their password for a government website to “password2016” and the website let them do it too! Thankfully, Wordpress gives you a message to warn a user that a password is weak, but it allows users to check a box to override the warning. Noooooo! I don’t want […]
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Here is an array of all the Bible books with common abbreviations
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I’ve only recently switched over to Macs and have found setting up mail sending on the MAc’s MAMP as hard as Windows! So here’s how. Firstly it all needs to be down in the “Terminal” – so click on Finder, then Applications, then Utilities to open a terminal (looks pretty similar to Windows CMD!) Check […]
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This evening, I rescued a client’s WordPress website from a hack that was so bad their host shut it down. I have a checklist that I use now to recover WordPress sites, which I’d like to share with you. Or you can hire me to do it for you as it requires some technical confidence! […]