stripslashes / wp_unslash with multibyte / mbstring support
One truly annoying thing with WordPress is that it doesn’t use the mbstring extensions at its core. I fully realize how big of a task a re-write is in this …
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Keep search parameters when using WP_List_Table and navigation
WP_List_Table is a reasonably flexible way of creating data tables in WordPress Admin Plugins. While there are plenty of warnings and words of caution against using WP_List_Table throughout the WordPress …
var_dump() for Javascript
PHP, for example, has var_dump() and print_r() to facilitate quick variable dumps to log files, etc. For Javascript, one can use console.log() in combination with JSON.stringify() to achieve something similar. …
Cloudbridge Mattermost
Cloudbridge Mattermost is a WordPress plugin that provides integration between WordPress and Mattermost. In the initial release, we focus on login notifications (successful, failed, unknown) from the various WordPress user …
Displaying WordPress roles in the current language
While writing a WordPress plugin that displays the available user roles, I came across a snag: the user roles that I had fetched from WordPress weren’t translated into the site’s …
Where did my Emacs color-theme go in Ubuntu 20.04.LTS?!
Having recently upgraded a small VPS from Ubuntu 18.04.LTS to Ubuntu 20.04.LTS, I ran into a little snag with Emacs and its color-theme (from the emacs-goodies-el package). After some digging, …
pdftk and php-pdftk on Ubuntu 18.04 without using snap
During a product launch I recently came across an “interesting” issue involving pdftk (and php-pdftk). Some of the developers had made assumptions (ever heard that one before?) about the operating …
Nextcloud and WebDAV “SEARCH” requests
Using WebDAV to access Nextcloud resources is a pretty nice way to write integrations for Nextcloud. While adding support for Nextcloud file browsing in a service we’re constantly improving, I …
WordPress Plugin Stopsign 1.0.0
Using the APIs over at trafiklab.se can yield some quite useful results. I needed to be able to display the commute stop departure times for public transport in a given …
Please use proper message headers (FFS)
Please don’t write code that generates e-mail messages if you are unable to read specifications. Thank you.