What a nightmare, an old WordPress site just stopped working with a Fatal Error and the cause was NavMenu, which references no-longer-existing Elementor schemes, namely: After a long talk with ChatGPT we finally ‘fixed’ this by removing all the scheme references in two files: So for example, this code: Becomes: Note the // on the... » read more
We’re using WP Media Folder. Suddenly we were seeing this message: But the images were small in both size and dimensions. It wasn’t that. When we checked the Chrome dev tools console we saw this message: Which started a minor scrabble to review our CORS settings on the bucket but then I had another thought:... » read more
Good question! Try instead using ‘save_post’. I was finding that this code: Was not saving the value to the database, when I checked, the field was empty, despite $html having content when the code fired. This code was inside an update_post action: When I updated it to: The value got correctly written. Note that ACF’s... » read more
We wanted to stop this leaking all our posts but also allow it for certain purposes with a username and password. Some solutions are very heavy-handed and can cause issues with plugins etc if you simply disable it all! With this method you can just lock down certain endpoints that you are worried about. This... » read more
Quite specific this but it was hard to work out, with ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot failing to come up with a solution. We have a custom_post type ‘case_study‘, and a taxonomy, ‘category‘ (which is also used by other post types) and we wanted to display a dropdown list of the taxonomy items only if there... » read more
We needed to create an RSS feed of WordPress posts that had been deleted, and it doesn’t exist out of the box, but it is very simple to create one. This information is available by searching but I thought it would be useful to have a single resource for this specific case. We’re going to... » read more
We’re going to use an ACF and a little bit of PHP. Let’s add an ACF custom field to keep a count of views on any post, add this to your code: Okay, now we need a PHP function to increment the post views field when we view it. This could go in your single.php... » read more
In an old WordPress installation I discovered 32,000 spam entries that has been collecting over the years in the Flamingo add on plugin that stores Contact Form 7 entries. I just wanted to delete everything and start again, from what I read, an uninstall doesn’t remove the entries and there’s no way we can do... » read more
Supporting an old WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04 it was running PHP 7.3 and we really needed to upgrade it to 7.4. But when we did and switched the fastcgi_pass to point to the new version, the site choked. All webpages suddenly asked for username and password/FTP details to complete the operation and then said that... » read more