Alter the contextual help in WordPress

Here’s a quick example of how to alter the contextual help menu in WordPress. It’s up there on the top right when you are in the admin view. Shannon asked a question about it in the Reclaim Discord server and I figured I’d start off my morning with a tiny programming exploration. There a few […]

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Auto-creating a Reveal JS slideshow from a folder of images

Late yesterday, I thought I was going to have to make an image slideshow for one of the kid’s sports. I didn’t want to make it in PPT or Keynote, but I also didn’t want to spend any significant time making it.1 Luckily, I’d previously looked into getting file names from directories with PHP (scandir) […]

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Change WordPress slug on title change

I’m trying to post smaller pieces of code as they come up to better document things for myself and maybe it’ll end up helpful for others. So these things aren’t terribly exciting and may, in fact, be boring. The Context I set up a custom post type named “Cards” and another custom post type named […]

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Recent Work – End of June Edition

Early Engineers website screenshot.

Greetings dear reader. I write to you again out of the desperate hope that writing this cements things I’ve learned better in my own head and maybe gives a person out there something that saves them some time or suffering or maybe just provides a kernel of an idea that they can improve on. That’s […]

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PHP Middleware for Keeping Your JS API Secrets Secret

Screenshot of a design context website where the weather data is being pulled via API.

Origin Story We were looking to pull in live weather data for a eco-related design contest that VCU Qatar is hosting. I found a free API for weather but wanted a way to use it via javascript and not expose any secrets. That led to the script below. Many APIs have query strings that require […]

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Filter WordPress Title but Only in Admin Area

A drawing of a small terrier dog jumping through a hoop held by a monkey.

I am playing around with unfurling1 open graph data in the WordPress TinyMCE editor. You can see what that looks like in the video above. It’s a lot like the oEmbed experience in WordPress but with the open graph information driving it. I want the data to go into the post body but I don’t […]

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