(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 “Heavy User V2”, which sounds like the name of an confused interplanetary supply ship.) Today […]
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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.
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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 in the solar system, or suits in a deck of cards. It can also be […]
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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 the web. I love MediaWiki (which is what I shifted to this time; last time […]
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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 life moves on and the higher-priority code always has to be the stuff that earns […]
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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 is how. Clone the two required repositories to directories next to each other: cd ~/public_html/wordpress/ […]
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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’] ) ); Which is fine, and actually now I’ve been using it for a decade I’m […]
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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 should have been caught before now, though, because the tests all run uninstall.php in their […]
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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 filter, how many values you’ve got in the search field.
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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 not allowed. It’s one of the names used by WordPress core; there are a few […]
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