Problem I’ve been trying like crazy to get to my local website at site.dev, but I keep getting redirected to https://site.dev and of course it doesn’t work because I don’t have a SSL certificate for that domain. Solution As of…
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SVG height not scaling properly on IE 10
Problem IE 10 shows a skewed svg image who’s width is set to a specific value and height is auto. Solution The problem is the width and height in the SVG file is set and IE is following those…
wpdb insert returning false
Problem When running wpdb->insert the result returns false. All the values seem to check out to be fine. Solution The problem might be due to this bug in WordPress. Basically one of your fields is too long and WordPress…
WP Cron with Basic Authentication
Problem WordPress’ cron doesn’t work when a site has basic authentication. You basically would get a 401 error. Solution Thanks to Nick Ohrn (in 2014) this problem is solved with a simple mu-plugin. You just need to set the…
Tagged with: wordpress
Where is wp_capabilities?
Problem After creating a user with a certain role I need to do a custom sql query where it only selected users of a specific role. This failed to find anything: select u.ID, u.display_name, u.user_login from $wpdb->users as u inner…
Chrome Zoom Shifts Layout
Problem: When zooming in or out on Chrome, the widths of elements increases very slightly and causes some elements to shift to the next line. Solution: The actual problem is Chrome adjusts the widths of elements by tenths. So something…
WordPress REST API schema property format: email
Problem: When setting a property type to ’email’ like so: $schema = array( ‘$schema’ => ‘http://json-schema.org/schema#’, ‘title’ => ‘user’, ‘type’ => ‘object’, ‘properties’ => array( ’email’ => array( ‘description’ => __( ‘The optional email address for the something.’ ), ‘type’…
WordPress Capabilities with map_meta_cap and user_has_cap
The two functions, map_meta_cap and user_has_cap allow you to change capabilities on the fly without having to add to roles in the database. These also allow you to have a ton of flexibility. Some examples from the talk: If you can…
WordPress 4.6 crashed my site
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare the_post_thumbnail_caption() (previously declared in …. This error occurs because the_post_thumbnail_caption is a new function in WordPress 4.6. However, people have been using this function for over 5 years now. How? Stackoverflow and other WordPress forums are flooded with…
WordPress the_title filter changed in nav menus
I haven’t had time to look into the exact reason or the exact version this changed, but as of at least WordPress version 4.5.2 the nav menu uses the_title multiple times for one item. For example if your theme used something like…
Tagged with: wordpress
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