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Month: March 2019
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-24
Please TRU Write With Me, I’m All Shiny And New – CogDogBlogUntil now, the editor did not automatically embed media from sites like YouTube, vimeo, twitter, SoundCloud from a plain URL — the user had to trust it would happen. MathigonAn interactive math resource worth looking at. h/t Clint Lalonde Choose Simple Solutions Over Flexible […]
Gravity Forms to ACF Pattern
When you use Gravity Forms to make a post, you can provision ACF fields but what I found was that the data wasn’t showing up correctly until I manually went and updated the created post. I tried using the WordPress wp_update_post() function but found that didn’t do it. I ended up taking a look at […]
Clean Up the Playground WordPress Plugin
I looked around for a WordPress plugin that would delete content every X hours and didn’t find anything. It may be this is a strange desire or I could be bad at searching but in any case I built something to do that. The idea I had was that people in a multisite environment could […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-17
TextWorld – Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft TextWorld is an open-source, extensible engine that both generates and simulates text games. You can use it to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn skills such as language understanding and grounding, combined with sequential decision making. A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K | Ars […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-10
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The AtlanticThey’ll clone a teacher’s shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the casual viewer that they’re just making notes on the lesson plan. If a teacher approaches to take a closer look, they can click the Resolve button, and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-03-03
Scammed at 40,000 Feet: Opaque Market Costs the Jet-Setting Rich – Bloomberg ” . . . according to My Sky, a company whose software helps scrutinize and manage private-jet costs” mattomildenberger on Twitter: “Something I’ve been meaning to say about The Tragedy of the Commons. Bear with me for a small thread on why our […]
Set FeedWordPress Update Scheduling
People often activate FeedWordPress but forget to set the feeds to update. I added this little bit to the Motherblog plugin so that on activation of that plugin FWP gets set automatically. […]
BuddyPress Activity Links Open in a New Tab
Not necessarily best practice but here’s the code to filter the BuddyPress activity feed and add target=”_blank” to all the links. […]
Auto Featured Image for Gravity Forms Posts by Response
This scenario is fairly specific, Gravity Forms to post and adding a specific featured image based on a form field but the ease of assigning a featured image via the media post ID is hand elsewhere and it’s always nice to document more ways to tweak Gravity Forms. Step One Upload your images to the […]
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