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Tag Archives: wordpress
WikiCite 2017
(Firefox asked me to rate it this morning, with a little picture of a broken heart and five stars to select from. I gave it five (’cause it’s brilliant) and then it sent me to a survey on mozilla.com titled … Continue reading
Posted in Open content, Programming
Tagged Bibliodata, books, Vienna, WikiCite, WikiCite17, Wikimedia, Wikisource, wordpress
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Tabulate 2.9.0
It turned out to be simpler than I’d thought to add the ENUM-modifying feature to Tabulate’s schema editor, so I’ve done it and released version 2.9.0.
Should Tabulate support ENUM columns?
I’m trying to figure out if it’s worthwhile adding better support for enumerated fields in Tabulate. MySQL’s ENUM type is useful when one has an immutable list of options such as days of the week, seasons of the year, planets … Continue reading
Returning (again) to WordPress
Every few years I try to move my blog away from WordPress. I tried again earlier this year, but here I am back in WordPress before even a month has gone by! Basically, nothing is as conducive to writing for … Continue reading
Abandoned code projects
One of the sad things about open source software is the process of working on some code, feeling like it’s going somewhere good and is useful to people, but then at some point having to abandon it. Normally just because … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged coding, concentration, projects, responsibility, Tabulate, wordpress, Work
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Running tests on WordPress coding standards
The docs for WordPress-Coding-Standards assume that one is installing things globally, but I don’t like my hacking on phpcs to break my usage of it elsewhere, so I wanted to cordon things off in their own little dev area. This … Continue reading
Spaces around dots
One of the first odd things that one finds when starting to work with WordPress code is the excessive use of spaces. Something like: do_something(‘Words of ‘.$widget->noun($attrs[‘ish’])); becomes the the stretched out: do_something( ‘Words of ‘ . $widget->noun( $attrs[‘ish’] ) … Continue reading
Uninstalling WordPress plugins in PHPunit
There’s a problem with uninstalling Tabulate. Fatal error: Class ‘WordPress\Tabulate\DB\Grants’ not found in C:\work\public_html\wp\stage\wp-content\plugins\tabulate\uninstall.php on line 8 The uninstall.php file shouldn’t know anything about the actual plugin. It shouldn’t use any classes or functions from the plugin itself. This problem … Continue reading
Tabulate: export not-found values
I’ve just added a new feature to Tabulate, that allows for the exporting (to CSV) of the set of filter values (for multi-valued filters) that are not found in the data. It also now tells you, next to each multi-valued … Continue reading
Be careful with GET parameter names in WordPress
I’ve been getting confused about why an HTML form I’ve been building inside a WordPress shortcode has been getting redirected after submission. Turns out it was because I was using p as a name for a request variable, and that’s … Continue reading