Con Schneider

Debugging WordPress Contact Form 7 send submission problems

If you have trouble with Contact Form 7 aborting submissions and it claiming “Cannot send…”
You can use this code to debug it:
(Thank you: Bernhard Kau)

a) used to diagnose the error via:

b) was the snippet I tried first. The filter exists but it did not work for me so I used c).

That did it.

Reduce Carbon Fields vendor folder size

I recently used the excellent Carbon Fields for building WordPress settings (hat tip to this super useful blog post).

I enjoyed using Carbon Fields very much. The framework is well documented and really easy to use. While I was working I also extended the carbon icon field with Icomoon assets.

One challenge you face at the end is that the vendor folder of carbon fields is pretty big.

WP OneSignal Open App instead of Phone Browser

This snippet makes push notifications sent via Onesignal for WordPress open the app instead of the phone browser.

Plugin contribution: WordPress Hide Posts

This plugin allows you to hide any posts on the home page, category page, search page, tags page, authors page, RSS Feed and REST API FeedAlso you can hide Woocommerce products from Shop page as well as from Product category pages.I contributed the REST API part.

Download from WordPress.org.

Mini-Plugin: WooCommerce Auto Save All Products.

This is a mini plugin that autosaves all WooCommerce products whenever an admin page is loaded.

If you have the problem that your bulk edits are not applied unless you go and edit the product directly and save it again, then this plugin might help.

Warning: This plugin may consume a lot of resources if you have a lot of products. Only keep activated when needed, for example when importing or doing bulk editing.

Simple Gutenberg Image Slider Plugin

A simple WordPress image slider for the block editor.
Download via: https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-slider-block/ … made by my wife.

Her Javascript is so much better than mine.

Regenerating Docker Machine TLS Certificate

Yesterday I updated my virtual box which confused my Local by Flywheel setup much. It got stuck in a loop, “Regenerating Docker Machine TLS Certificate ” then “Checking System”.

Here is the solution that worked for me as posted in: https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/regenerating-docker-machine-tls-certificate-checking-system-wont-start/5235/8?u=conschneiderI work on a Mac. If your Local runs on Windows, visit the link above for a modified version.

Quit Docker. Open terminal and run:

alias local-docker-machine=”/Applications/Local\ by\ Flywheel.app/Contents/Resources/extraResources/virtual-machine/vendor/docker/osx/docker-machine”

Wait for it to run, should only take a moment.

How to create and edit an email template for WooCommerce Follow Ups

Here is a quick tutorial on how to create and edit an email template for WooCommerce Follow Ups.

Mini-Plugin: WordPress Show User Count per Role

This is a mini plugin that shows the WordPress user count per role via a shortcode.

Use with the shortcode:

Result:

For WooCommerce you can also use csucuscount as shortcode (written in square brackets as for every shortcode as shown above).

How to choose a secure password for WordPress

Understanding the WordPress password system
WordPress makes use of the zxcvbn code to estimate whether a chosen password is strong or not. The code is courtesy of Dropbox and hosted here on Github. Dropbox published a very nice blog post in 2012 explaining its concept. My following explanations are based on its content which were eye opening to me. I encourage you to give it a read, if you are interested in the subject.

The author also provides a test tool that you can use to gauge password strength in a very informative manner.