Here’s a sequence of events I wouldn’t wish on anyone. What started out as one website running low on disk space ended up with me having to reload some of my local databases from backups. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 51: PHP 7 development environment
Having spent some time taking performance measurements with PHP 5 I’ve decided to try PHP 7 and run the suite of tests all over again. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 50: Cannot redeclare func previously declared in file:xx in file:yy
I’ve had this problem for a while now. I’m happily working away on my Windows PC, editing posts, changing code and testing and then out of the blue comes a Fatal error: Cannot redeclare message.
But when I press Enter or refresh it goes away.
H2GD Part 49: Crocodile maths question – PHP solution
Here’s a little bit of PHP that helps you to solve the Crocodile maths question. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 48: Super side effect of oik-types provides workaround for TRAC #16956
Using my oik-types plugin it’s possible to override a post type definition such that it’s still registered even when the original plugin that created it is not activated. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 47: Introducing Ava
Ava – Aoife – is a radiant beauty
H2GD Part 46: Migrate to the Genesis Framework
In this blog post I mention some of the tasks I needed to perform in order to migrate oik-plugins.com to the Genesis framework. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 45: How to remain detached?
How to prevent WordPress from attaching an unattached image to a post when you use Insert into post.
Here’s a snippet of code that I wrote in response to a simple question from Ben Huson, posed on Twitter yesterday. [Read more…]
H2GD Part 44: I’m going to use __DIR__ – duh?
Q. Should I change my code back to using dirname( __FILE__ ) instead of __DIR__?
A. No. I’m going to stick with __DIR__ until someone complains.
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H2GD Part 28: #wcukretreat 2013 report
In H2GD Part 25: 15 projects for #wcukretreat 2013 I outlined a number of projects that I thought I might spend some time on at the 2013 #wcukretreat. I didn’t make much progress on them. But I did have fun trying. Here’s my brief report; Only 2 years late. [Read more…]