Updating jQuery code in your unmaintained WordPress plugin or theme
Tag: WordPress
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Updating jQuery code in your unmaintained WordPress plugin or theme
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How to Test and Interpret WordPress Site Performance – Jon Brown
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Licence key constants in wp-config.php cheatsheet
I use a few premium WordPress plugins regularly as part of my work. Rather than rely on keeping the licence key in the database (via the relevant plugin’s WordPress admin settings screen), I generally prefer to add the licence key as a constant to a (non git committed) wp-config.php file.
This way I don’t have to worry about if the licence key got lost when I pushed or pulled from a different development environment, when I use my preferred tool for doing this WP Migrate DB.
Right now there are four plugins that I use on a regular basis that support this method of defining a constant:
To use this method simply add the following to your wp-config.php file (you’ll need to do this on each environment – developer, staging or production – you plan to use this on) and you’re good to go. (If you use version control, I don’t recommend you commit you licence key however).
https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/331912a00252bced587c2ab7b4e669fe
If you know of any other good premium plugins that support this method me know and I’ll add them here.
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add_filter shortcuts in WordPress
Once you start developing more with WordPress you’ll probably find yourself using
add_filterto add, modify or remove data.When modifying some text you might do something like the following simple example.
https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/6403c81b4ec05ba32afecc97634a589e
Sometimes you’ll want to remove text too.
https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/fd8a1c75c6f68389f6f087a9f63357df
However, you might not be aware (or might forget!) that there’s a shorter way of doing this.
https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/71c2f1f06287c6f4347b7a8e8ef67c6b
In the above example, there’s no need to write out a separate function to achieve the result that you want. Instead you can use one of the following (self explanatory) ‘shortcut’ functions, baked into WordPress, to pass the type of data that you want.
https://gist.github.com/nickdavis/c4afa54d97ab6a69e1d6eecdf3268fd7
Writing it out this way is not only shorter, but much easier to read too.