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How to survive WordPress 5.5’s removal of jQuery-migrate

I started upgrading to WordPress 5.5 and soon began to experience a load of problems with core functionality. Things that should work no longer worked. I first noticed it on a client’s site when Media Library didn’t display anything.

Media Library not working in WordPress 5.5.

WordPress TRAC Issue #50993

This post summarises my investigations, some of the problems I encountered, the workaround and some notes about what I need to do in the future, which is a work in progress.

TL;DR – 25th August 2020

As far as team Yoast are concerned the problem should go away if I upgrade to WordPress SEO v14.8.1.

Fixes a bug in WordPress itself where script concatenation was causing JavaScript errors, which in turn led to Yoast SEO malfunctioning. This bug was introduced in WordPress 5.5. We’re fixing it by disabling script concatenation entirely.

from the WordPres SEO v14.8.1 readme.txt file

With their fix being a workaround. Roll on WordPress 5.5.1

TL;DR – previous update

The problems that I documented last week were either due to a bug in WordPress or a bug in the Gutenberg plugin. There were two TRAC issues, and the problem had already been reported in Yoast’s GitHub repo.

The problem originally occurred with Gutenberg 8.7.1, WordPress SEO 14.7 and WordPress 5.5.

It appears that Gutenberg 8.8.0 has fixed the problem. There’s no longer a need to apply the patch developed for TRAC ticket #50999, nor, it seems, do I need the Enable jQuery Migrate Helper plugin.

The “what I need to do in the future” part is still a work in progress”. I’ve created a GitHub Project for it.

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SB Children block – my first Single Block plugin

Today I delivered my first Single Block ( SB ) plugin to wordpress.org. It’s called SB Children block and it’s in the Block Directory.

I’ve written up some notes about the plugin. Suffice it to say there were a few challenges along the way. But I’ve left the details of these in the GitHub issues.

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Dynamic content block in oik-blocks v0.4.0-beta-20200209

I’m away on vacation very soon. I’ve taken the opportunity to release another beta version of my oik-blocks plugin with a new block called Dynamic content block ( oik/content-block ).

This block implements 11 of my dynamic content shortcodes delivered by the oik base plugin, hence the prefix. When it’s ready for production then I’ll deliver the block in oik v4.1.0.

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oik-clone v2.0.0 – reconciliation with push, pull and import

What has cloning ever done for us?

Asked by: Fuzzy Duck, Ducky Fuzz and the other one

Coming up to five years ago I published my requirements for cloning content between sites. One of the planned enhancements was to support pull cloning. ie. Pulling updated content back from a slave server to the local system, providing the same content cloning functionality as for push cloning, including attachments.

I’m going on holiday to New Zealand fairly soon. I won’t be taking my laptop. I want to be able to import any changes I make on my websites back to my development machine.

Back in June 2019, when I first started writing this post, I developed a batch interface to support push, pull and reconciliation. Then I got sidelined with Do Not Clone logic to cater for posts that get cloned both between subdomains and local and slave servers.

Over the last couple of days, I’ve written a new Slave tab for the oik options > Clone admin page. I think I’ve nearly cracked it. It even seems to work for attachments. I can Import, Pull, Push and Clone content, including re-usable blocks.

Now I’m going to find out if it really does work. Fingers crossed. I’ve packaged a new version of the plugin as v2.0.0-beta-20200127. I don’t think I need to install the plugin on my servers since the changes apply to my local development. But I might as well.

Wish me luck! PS. I will be taking backups before I do anything too drastic.

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Languages

There’s a trend on Twitter for web developers to publish a short list of programming languages in 6 categories. I’ve decided to make four lists.

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43 years in IT

43 years ago, at the tender age of 16 years and 11 months, I entered the IT industry. My salary was £1690 per annum; £65 a fortnight.

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How I’m testing the internationalization and localization of my WordPress plugins

A few months ago, having resolved to internationalize, localize and test my WordPress plugins, I started busily beavering away at a solution that will enable me to automatically deliver UK English versions of my plugins.

Now that Global WordPress Translation Day #3 is fast approaching it seems timely to write up an outline of my approach. The solution involves a number of fairly well defined processes, and a lot of repetition. [Read more…]

Disable caching of style.css when developing a Genesis child theme

If you’re developing a Genesis child theme and making quite a few changes to your style.css file you may want a quick and easy method of ensuring the style file is reloaded every time it gets changed. One way is to ensure that the ver parameter on the stylesheet definition changes each time you update the file. [Read more…]

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Tide Times & Heights for Northney on Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Low Tide: 04:55 ( 1.00m )
High Tide: 12:03 ( 4.60m )
Low Tide: 17:14 ( 0.90m )

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Tide Times & Heights for Northney on 1st December 2020
04:55 - Low Tide ( 1.03m )
12:03 - High Tide ( 4.58m )
17:14 - Low Tide ( 0.91m )

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