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Should The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?

December 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

WordPress LOVES backwards compatibility as can be witnessed by the minimum-allowed WordPress PHP version remaining at 5.2.4 a decade after its end-of-life date. It may be one of the reasons they…Continue readingShould The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?

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My First Technical Writing Gig – Writing for Jetpack

December 14, 2017Lance Cleveland

A few months ago an acquaintance of mine put out a public post on a message board over at Codeable asking if anyone would be interested in writing articles for…Continue readingMy First Technical Writing Gig – Writing for Jetpack

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Uncovering A WordPress Walker Class Inconsistency

December 9, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

Took an hour tonight to figure out why the new Store Locator Plus Premier Button Bar is not working properly. The odd thing is this WAS working properly two…Continue readingUncovering A WordPress Walker Class Inconsistency

PHP Programming Programming Languages WordPress

wp_enqueue_scripts Deep Dive

December 4, 2017Lance Cleveland

While trying to figure out why the footer-loaded scripts in Store Locator Plus are not being output on some admin page, I went deep down the rabbit hole of the…Continue readingwp_enqueue_scripts Deep Dive

Development Technology

Getting Foundation, Sass, and phpStorm To Play Together

November 26, 2017Lance Cleveland

In an effort to improve the overall user experience inStore Locator Plus™, my business locator plugin for WordPress, I have been playing with pre-defined interface frameworks. I’ve been working…Continue readingGetting Foundation, Sass, and phpStorm To Play Together

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Using Custom Vagrant Sites For WordPress Development

November 16, 2017Lance Cleveland

As with many things in life, I recently learned that I’ve been doing things the hard way when it comes to WordPress development and Vagrant. I got on the Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants…Continue readingUsing Custom Vagrant Sites For WordPress Development

Apple Technology

What To Consider When Buying MacBook Pro Retina Power Adapters

November 15, 2017Lance Cleveland

The new MacBook Pro Retina is now shipping with the soon-to-be ubiquitous USB Type-C ports. There are 4 of them on my new 15″ MacBook Pro. The cool…Continue readingWhat To Consider When Buying MacBook Pro Retina Power Adapters

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MacBook Pro System Freezes

October 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

Despite having spilled a half-quart of apple juice straight into the innards of my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, the uptime has been astounding. The only notable time that the…Continue readingMacBook Pro System Freezes

Plugin Development WordPress

WordPress Hooks and Filters Order Of Precedence

October 11, 2017January 8, 2025Lance Cleveland

When building plugins and themes I often need to reference the WordPress order of precedence of hooks. This helps ensure various components are loaded only when needed and at…Continue readingWordPress Hooks and Filters Order Of Precedence

JavaScript Programming Languages Technology

Selenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

September 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

This article continues the journey into learning Selenium on JavaScript (SoJa). It builds on the lessons of the previous articles and adds some common library functions to make our tests…Continue readingSelenium on JavaScript : New WordPress Site Config Script

JavaScript Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium on JavaScript : User List Test

September 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

I wasn’t quite sure what to name this article. The Selenium on JS example here can be used to scan any table to ensure every entry on a list of…Continue readingSelenium on JavaScript : User List Test

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JavaScript Selenium Newb Cheat Sheet

September 26, 2017Lance Cleveland

Finding documentation on Selenium is hard enough for the “main languages” of Java or Python. There are lots of examples of how to do things there in those languages…Continue readingJavaScript Selenium Newb Cheat Sheet