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…
My Monkey Do A Log of Coding Solutions
Category: Coding
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…
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Relative positioning of table rows and row groups is now supported. This site may need to be updated because it may depend on this feature having no effect.
Firefox displayed this warning in the Firebug console. This warning indicates an absolutely positioned does not consider a table element relatively positioned so it may not appear as expected. A better explanation is here: https://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?289315-Relative-positioning-of-table-rows-and-row-groups-is-now-supported.-This-site-may-nee and solution to fix is here:…
Draggable Icon in Font Awesome
This is weird. Font Awesome has a ton of fonts, but no draggable icon. Issue #816 is on github shows much love for this added feature, open since 2013. A workaround for this suggested by abanctelchevrel: /* \f142 is ellipsis-v */…
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Link from Google Redirecting
After years of not having a client get hacked, I got 2 in a few weeks. One client (client A) has a WordPress site which I developed the theme on. Another client (client B) was brand new, no WordPress. Client…
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