Mamp error logging
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If you want to follow MAMP error logs in the terminal, this the command To clear the log use this command
Finding bad code in a WordPress Install
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A premium WordPress plugin client was having some trouble with their site. Some of my Javascript had stopped working because of a javascript error from another plugin/theme. Unfortunately their javascript wasn’t enqueued and I was struggling to find how it had got there. I only had site access and no FTP or shell to search. […]
Posting a WordPress shortcode without it being processed
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I often want to show a shortcode in a tutorial post without it actually processing the shortcode. For example Name EmailContact NumberSubjectMessageThis contact form only works with Javascript enabled In the old classic editor, you could switch to Text and use the html entities [ becomes [ ] becomes ] so you could use [contact_form] […]
Mailchimp API email sending an embedded audio
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I have discovered that the MailChimp API is pretty awful at handling audio tags when sending an email – It’ll come through looking like a playable audio player but nothing works in my email client! So I created a code snippet to turn an audio tag into a Play Audio link button…
Spam free contact form
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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 […]
Enabling the block editor for custom post types correctly
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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 […]
Watch out for SQL injection hackers
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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 […]
MySQL dates can’t be 0000-00-00
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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”; […]
Cordova Firebase background push notifications not working in iOS13 and XCode 11?
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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 […]
White Sceen of death on Cordova iOS but not browser
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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 […]