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WordPress 4.8.2 Data Query Woes

September 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Millions of websites across the Internet were automatically updated to WordPress 4.8.2 yesterday. Thousands of those sites have key components that are no longer working. Many of those…Continue readingWordPress 4.8.2 Data Query Woes

Quality Assurance Web App Testing

Building Selenium IDE TNG On MacOS

September 20, 2017Lance Cleveland

Download MacPorts from https://www.macports.org/install.php If you had a terminal session open, close it and start a new one to reload the environment path. Check the port command is available. which…Continue readingBuilding Selenium IDE TNG On MacOS

Technology

What (Not) To Do If Your Phone Got Wet

August 29, 2017October 3, 2023Lance Cleveland

From USA Today – https://apple.news/AB301Z-2KScauDPud4WogmQ First things first. Do NOT turn on the phone to check it. Water plus electricity inside the case will try the phone at the speed…Continue readingWhat (Not) To Do If Your Phone Got Wet

Development PHP Programming Languages Technology WordPress

PHP Autoload and Singleton(ish) Model

August 17, 2017Lance Cleveland

Once every couple of years I take a month off from hacking away at the Store Locator Plus products and delve into some personal projects. It is a way to…Continue readingPHP Autoload and Singleton(ish) Model

Environment

Gas Powered Lawn Care Pollution

August 3, 2017Lance Cleveland

Years ago I pulled into the local gas station and saw a pickup pulling a big solar-powered trailer behind it. As a eco-geek I was interested. I have been…Continue readingGas Powered Lawn Care Pollution

Quality Assurance

Selenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars Logic

July 10, 2017Lance Cleveland

#Selenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars #Logic (#qa #webtesting #seleniumide)…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With StoredVars Logic

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Adding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

June 16, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

Adding the Screen Options drop down to a custom WordPress admin page takes some trickery which was described in the prior Screen Options blog post. Using the “magic sauce” of…Continue readingAdding Columns To WordPress Screen Options

Plugin Development WordPress

Adding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

June 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

Many of the built-in WordPress admin pages have a Screen Options drop-down tab on the top right of the page. This is used to set how many items are…Continue readingAdding Screen Options To WordPress Admin Pages

Development Technology

Adopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

May 23, 2017Lance Cleveland

A couple of months ago I noticed SmartGit, my preferred git management tool, had a GitFlow button in the toolbar when I updated to the latest version. Curious I…Continue readingAdopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

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WordPress As An Application Framework

May 15, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

A summary of my notes from my SyntaxCon 2017 “WordPress As An Application Framework” presentation. Constraints Constraints of working in and around the WordPress application. Built-In Overhead Using any…Continue readingWordPress As An Application Framework

Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

April 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

As I prepare another release of Store Locator Plus with some new features I’ve decided it is time to up my QA-fu with Selenium. I’ve been using Selenium IDE…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

Plugin Development WordPress

WordPress Plugin Overhead

March 24, 2017Lance Cleveland

I recently wrote an article on why you should bury the bulk of your plugin PHP code at least TWO levels deep from the top-level directory. The short version: WordPress…Continue readingWordPress Plugin Overhead