Technical focused articles
Recently we had to transfer 3,000 product groups and over 20,000 individual product sku’s to a wordpress woocommerce installation. We quickly noticed that there was very little documentation regarding how exactly to set this all up pragmatically. This post goes over some important aspects to note when performing the conversion Woocommerce Product Fields Woocommerce has several standard, meta, attribute,…
Recently we had to build a wordpress plugin. The requirements were that two buttons would be assigned to every post about the featured image. Instead of hacking into the existing theme, we opted to use the wordpress action hook “the_post” to achieve our goals. The Dilemma The thing to note here, is that the theme was very…
Recently we had a client who needed the entire group setup changed. They wanted to call it something else. As you can imagine, there are lots of references to groups through the buddypress setup. You can change the language files or you can change things directly and permanently. On our journey, we came across the…
Recently we had to pull a single date from a table of dates during a left join. In fact, we needed the most recent date that matched a particular id. We quickly figured out that a left join does not allow for the use of limits in our case. The Dilemma We did mean in…
We love using anythingslider on our projects. Pull in its js and easing.js and you are off and running with a quick call under document.ready. The Dilema Recently we had an issue where the image was not centered in the slider. It was about 30 px to the right. I mean, you could see the…
Mysql is a very nice database. Just like php its extreamly forgiving. Anyone with experience with RDBMS setups will know exactly what we mean. For this article, we will be discussing the “Group By” argument and how mysql makes really good guesses. Moreover, we will be discussing what happens when mysql doesn’t make that guess…
While working on a buddypress project for a site, we needed to create custom content in the group area. This would necessitate the creation of group level navigation and corresponding pages. The Dilemma New to the plugin, we wanted a quick way to get up and running but found it difficult to figure out exactly…
We recently had a customer who had an old 19xx Delphi setup. We can no idea what DB, MB, PX, XG, YG meant. However, we knew that there was data in there. If you are looking at this blog for information, you probably ran into the same problem we had searching everywhere and finding nothing.…
Finally, all the information regarding the wordpress paging options are in one place. We are talking about paging for, articles, comments, and pages. These are is very little documentation on the subject and for most people the only solution is to use a paging plugin. Scenario On a recent job, we were tasked with a…
Recently, we were working on a cakephp project. The customer requested that after the user enters their verification code, that they are automatically logged in. I had never seen this before and promptly began searching the intertubes for an answer. The delema Surprisingly enough, there is very little to no information online about programatically logging…