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Check out my article on the WPMU DEV blog where I’ll walk you through the process of submitting custom forms in WordPress via an HTML as well as an AJAX request, and handling the form in PHP to validate, sanitize and process the form input. …
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Plugin Boilerplates are a great way to start developing without having to rewrite standard code. They also ensure that all your plugins are consistent with respect to layout and coding practices. The WordPress Plugin Handbook lists best practices to develop WordPress plugins. Among these are a few Boilerplate Starting Points that you can use instead of writing your own. I particularly liked the one by DeninVinson but without support for namespaces, one could end up with a lot of …
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Overview In a recent tutorial I explained how one can add custom fields to the WooCommerce checkout. However, adding custom fields to the checkout don't fully enable them in the admin user profile area or the user's profile page. The custom fields will probably show up in the user's profile pages but any modifications to them won't be registered. We need to write a few lines of code to achieve this. In the image below, we have several custom checkout fields like - Prefix, Address …
Overview In this article I'll explain how you can set the background image for any page or post using its own Featured Image in WordPress. This will allow you to have different background images for different pages or for posts using a custom post type. The default background image set using Customizer or CSS will load when there's no Featured Image set. This basically gives control to your users to set unique backgrounds from within the Post/Page editor. While there are plugins to …
Overview: Part 1 of this article explains the setup for Vagrant in WSL - Bash on Ubuntu on Windows If you've got Vagrant up and running, then setting up VVV is the same as in Linux. However, I had a lot of issues with SSH. And vagrant ssh would just hang in my case. I was finally able to log into the vagrant box using the ssh command with the vagrant ssh-config configuration. Here are the steps to get VVV working: Step 1: Vagrant up Run your WSL - Bash as Administrator. You could try …
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Overview I've never really been a huge fan of the Windows shell. They've come up with quite a few solutions, and there were also third party tools like Cygwin. Yet, Linux has been the default development environment for me (and most developers around the world. MAC is linux based too ;) ) Recently Microsoft did something HUGE. After officially providing WSL interoperability support one can now invoke binaries (exe files) from within the Ubuntu BASH on Windows. This makes working …
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