pods_api_post_save_pod_item or save_post not working on frontend
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// This is a logging function for any debugging task
// NOTES: Youy must have the following lines in the wp-config.php file in the root folder, which
// puts a debug.log text file under the wp-content folder under root
//
//
// define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
// define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
// define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
//
// NOTES: install Error Log Viewer Plugin by bestwebsoft to view log from admin menu
// for error logging
if (!function_exists('write_log')) {
function write_log ( $log ) {
if ( true === WP_DEBUG ) {
if ( is_array( $log ) || is_object( $log )) {
error_log( print_r( $log, true ));
} else {
error_log( $log );
}
}
}
}
//
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Quick Tip: Block OpenAI from Using Content From Your WordPress Site
Whatever your thoughts on AI bots, you may want to take action on your own website to block ChatGPT from crawling, indexing, and using your website content and data.
Navigating the New Era of AI-Assisted Code Generation in WordPress
WordPress plugin developers are adopting AI-powered tech and building it into their products, such as RankMath’s AI-generated suggestions for creating SEO-friendly content, WordPress.com’s experimental blocks for AI-generated images and content, and a Setary’s plugin that uses AI to write and bulk edit WooCommerce product descriptions. The wpfrontpage site is tracking these plugins but WordPress.org also lists dozens of plugins with AI, many of them created to write content or generate images.
How To Build A ChatGPT Chatbot For Your Website In Minutes
Although the plugin is free, getting access to OpenAI’s server is not. It’s very reasonably priced – most basic questions and answers will cost a fraction of a cent – but if you’ve got a heavily trafficked site or visitors making excessive use of the chatbot, costs can quickly ramp up.
How to Highlight the Search Terms in Results in WordPress
In an attempt to make your WordPress search even more user friendly, you can highlight the search terms in the results. We did this for one of our clients, so we thought it would be useful for other users. In this article we will show you how you can highlight search terms in the results in WordPress.
How to unpack .wpress archive files created by the All-in-one-Wp-Migration WordPress plugin
Recently I needed to download some files from a WordPress installation where the client only gave me access to the admin dashboard. Fortunately the All-in-One WP Migration plugin was already installed, so I could take a quick backup of the whole site by downloading the installed plugins, theme and database.
To my surprise downloading the backup from the All-in-One WP Migration plugin only gave me a single compressed migration.wpress file that any unpack tool refused to extract. A little web search brought me to a five year old tool called Wpress-Extractor but the provided binaries for MacOS refused to work because the package was already too old.
So I decided to rewrite this little helpful tool in Node.js to make it cross-platform compatible for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
The Importance of WP Localize Script
The importance of wp_localize_script is when you can pass data directly from PHP to JavaScript.
Functions is very easy to handle there are only 3 parameters required :
$handle
(string) (Required) Script handle the data will be attached to.
$object_name
(string) (Required) Name for the JavaScript object. Passed directly, so it should be qualified JS variable. Example: ‘/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/’.
$l10n
(array) (Required) The data itself. The data can be either a single or multi-dimensional array.
Custom Post Type Templates from Plugin Folder?
You can use single_template filter hook.
/* Filter the single_template with our custom function*/
add_filter('single_template', 'my_custom_template');
function my_custom_template($single) {
global $post;
/* Checks for single template by post type */
if ( $post->post_type == 'POST TYPE NAME' ) {
if ( file_exists( PLUGIN_PATH . '/Custom_File.php' ) ) {
return PLUGIN_PATH . '/Custom_File.php';
}
}
return $single;
}
How to add a custom field to quick edit
There are a few steps to create the custom quick edit box and custom column
- create a custom meta key (assumed that you have 1 already)
- add custom admin column title and data (assumed that you want to shows the custom meta key in the column, if not, you may also modify a bit of the logic to accomplish the same effect because the principal is the same)
- add custom quick edit box
- add save logic
- load script to modify original inline-edit-post function in order to support custom meta value
- prepare the script file
Modernizing JavaScript Code in WordPress
I’ve just had a nice experience improving and modernizing a large JavaScript codebase in a WordPress plugin. The original code was written in an old-fashioned way with jQuery in a single large file. Using modern EcmaScript and tools like Webpack, I was able to split it into modules and improve the code structure. The new code is much more readable and maintainable, and of course, fewer bugs. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I did that.
How to Modify or Add Custom Columns to Post List in WordPress Admin
The filter for modifying, removing or adding columns to post list in WordPress admin panel is manage_{$post_type}_posts_columns.
Which hook you need to use for controlling the output of the column content depends on whether or not your post type is set to be hierarchical or not.
Any non-hierarchical post types, including WordPress’ built-in post type ‘post‘, use the hook name manage_{$post_type}_custom_column. Any hierarchical post types, including WordPress’ built-in post type ‘page‘, use the hook name manage_pages_custom_column (note: no injection of post type name in the hook name).
How to Use Sequential Order Numbers for Member Invoices in Paid Memberships Pro
Generate custom order codes / order numbers that increment for Paid Memberships Pro Orders [Custom order sequence]
WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts
In light of a recent German court case, which fined a website owner for violating the GDPR by using Google-hosted webfonts, WordPress.org’s themes team is updating its recommendations for hosting webfonts. Most theme authors have been enqueuing Google Fonts from the Google CDN for better performance, but this method exposes visitors’ IP addresses.
“The themes team strongly encourages the theme authors to update their themes,” Themes Team representative @benachi said in a recent announcement. “We recommend updating by switching to locally hosted webfonts. Luckily Google Fonts can be downloaded and bundled in a theme. Bundled font files allow users to host webfonts locally and comply with GDPR.”
Making Autocomplete Search in WordPress With Code
The autocomplete is generated with help from jQuery UI Autocomplete, a script that is included in WordPress as default.
Keep Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) in Sync across multiple computers
It turns out this was the easy part. All you need to do is symlink your VVV directory to whatever syncing program you happen to be using (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). You can also move your entire VVV directory into Dropbox, but I prefer a symlink to keep the separation.
Run a WP-CLI command as a given WordPress user
Use the –user=
Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WPLegalPages
Generate a professional WordPress Privacy Policy, terms of use, terms & conditions, eCommerce returns & refunds policy, affiliate disclaimers & more. Covers 25+ expert vetted legal pages for WordPress websites.
Setting Cookies in WordPress
So how do you set cookies in WordPress? With core constants:
COOKIEPATH — Server path in which the cookie will be available on.
COOKIE_DOMAIN — The (sub)domain that the cookie is available to.
Setting cookies in WordPress, especially the expiration is a cinch using one of the core time constants, available since v3.5:
MINUTE_IN_SECONDS = 60 seconds
HOUR_IN_SECONDS = 3,600 seconds
DAY_IN_SECONDS = 86,400 seconds
WEEK_IN_SECONDS = 604,800 seconds
MONTH_IN_SECONDS = 2,629,746 seconds
YEAR_IN_SECONDS = 31,556,952 seconds
Don’t forget to add the current timestamp to one of these constants, for example:
// 5 minutes into the future
$five_minutes = current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) + ( MINUTE_IN_SECONDS * 5 );
How to Create a Custom WordPress Gutenberg Block: Tutorial Series
In the first parts we focus on the basics. We set up a development environment with running compilation of our code. And the basics of how to register a block and the necessary PHP parts of it as well. We’ll learn about the huge library of components and methods available to us from WordPress Gutenberg.
Moving on we’ll learn about how to add sections and settings for our block in the editor sidebar (Inspector) as well as customizing the toolbar. Along the way we’ll touch a lot of different input types and how to use Gutenberg’s component for these. And of course we’ll learn how to save, update and output the saved information to our block – and how that works behind the scenes.
At the end we’ll look at more advanced things like dynamic blocks and how to use PHP to render the block output. And finally how to make post queries inside the editor – allowing the user to select a post from a list for render.
Intercept WordPress API Requests
Say you want to intercept a response from any WordPress API call before it gets returned to the user? For example, you want to block /users/ route or append additional content to a /posts/ response. Simply call the rest_pre_echo_response filter and you can modify all responses!
wp-rest-polylang
Adds value `lang` and `translations` to WP REST api response for each Post and Page request for site running the Polylang Pro plugin.
Adds polylang_translations and keeps lang to WP REST api response for each Post and Page request for site running the Polylang Pro plugin.
Extending Gutenberg With SlotFill and Filters
SlotFill is a modernized take on classic interface “hooks and filters”—a convention for empowering developers to extend the publishing interface outside of the block editor itself—that found its way into WordPress.
Gutenberg : override core blocks rendering
The easiest way to achieve this, is to consider the gallery as a Dynamic block and re-declare its render through PHP:
One thousand and one way to extend Gutenberg today
Extensibility is key, and we can’t build the next generation of the WordPress Editor without making it extensible. What does “making it extensible” mean? Does this mean providing hooks and filters in JavaScript the same way we do in PHP? Does this mean allowing plugins to extend and tweak any UI component used by Gutenberg? Does this mean adding filters to the REST API? Does this mean Giving access to an Editor object to manipulate the editor’s content?
There’s no clear answer to all these questions. Extensibility is a very difficult problem and unless you build it with real use-cases in mind, you’re more likely to get it wrong. (and being stuck with it for a long time).
What does apply_filters(…) actually do in WordPress?
apply_filters($tag, $value) passes the ‘value’ argument to each of the functions ‘hooked’ (using add_filter) into the specified filter ‘tag’. Each function performs some processing on the value and returns a modified value to be passed to the next function in the sequence.
Adding custom fields in the WordPress REST API
Adding a new field with the register_api_field function
The described below requires more code, but it’s more elegant and opens up many more possibilities for expanding our functionality.
Why We Should Set the $content_width Variable in WordPress Themes
It is a theme feature which helps us to control our content width for images, videos and embeds. If you used _s starter theme or browsed through any official WordPress theme, you saw it in the functions.php. In today’s responsive design, it is not the most necessary tool for the images but still useful because of the other media formats.
Customizer Export/Import
The Customizer Export/Import plugin allows you to export or import your WordPress customizer settings from directly within the customizer interface! If your theme makes use of the WordPress customizer for its settings, this plugin is for you!
WordPress Create Upload Files and Directories
This tutorial explains how to create new files and directories in the WordPress /uploads/ folder.
Make WordPress Core. Our Philosophies
Decisions not Options
When making decisions, these are the users we consider first. A great example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option, this ultimately leads to frustration. As developers, we sometimes feel that providing options for everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right? Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the average end user has no interest in. It’s our duty as developers to make smart design decisions, and avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users.
Distributor. Safely reuse and syndicate content between WordPress sites
Distributor is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to syndicate and reuse content across your websites — whether in a single multisite or across the web.
WordPress Trademark Policy
The WordPress Foundation owns and oversees the trademarks for the WordPress and WordCamp names and logos. We have developed this trademark usage policy with the following goals in mind:
We’d like to make it easy for anyone to use the WordPress or WordCamp name or logo for community-oriented efforts that help spread and improve WordPress.
We’d like to make it clear how WordPress-related businesses and projects can (and cannot) use the WordPress or WordCamp name and logo.
We’d like to make it hard for anyone to use the WordPress or WordCamp name and logo to unfairly profit from, trick or confuse people who are looking for official WordPress or WordCamp resources.
Contact Form 7: Spam Filtering with Akismet
There are three Akismet-related options:
akismet:author
You give this option to the field where submitters input their names.
Example: [text* your-name akismet:author]
You give this option to the field where submitters input their email addresses.
Example: [email* your-email akismet:author_email]
WordPress Function Reference: media sideload image
Download an image from the specified URL and attach it to a post.
media_sideload_image($file, $post_id, $desc, $return);
Get all languages cpt posts on frontend. Search query
I suggest that you use $query->set( ‘lang’, » ); in a function hooked to parse_query with priority 1.
PHP Compatibility Checker
The WP Engine PHP Compatibility Checker can be used by any WordPress website on any web host to check PHP version compatibility.
WP Migrate DB
WP Migrate DB exports your database as a MySQL data dump (much like phpMyAdmin), does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, handles serialized data, then allows you to save it to your computer as an SQL file.
Susty WP. Building for sustainability with WordPress
Delivering WordPress in 7KB 6KB*
This website aims to act as a guide to making WordPress websites more sustainable, and to serve as a practical example of how we can tune our websites and reduce their carbon footprint. The homepage of this website is delivered to your browser with just 6KB of data transfer. This is achieved by its theme, plugins and configuration. As of 2016, the average website data transfer was 2.3MB, making it 393 times bigger than this website!
Bootstrap 4 WordPress Starter Theme
them.es Starter is a WordPress Starter Theme built with Bootstrap.