Generate a Link to Activate a Plugin in WordPress
Here’s another specialized plugin development tip! If you want to create a link to activate a plugin, you need to know the path of the plugin file. Let’s use Akismet for this example. $path =...
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Add Googlebot User Agent to Safari Develop Menu
If you’re like me, you’ve wanted to have the Googlebot user agent availalbe in the Develop menu of Safari. Go to /Applications/ Right-click on Safari.app and select Show Package Contents Navigate to...
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Get URL for Searches in Safari 6
There have been many articles and conversations about the question of how to get the URL of a Google search in Safari 6. Some solutions include using the Terminal to get the URL, using AppleScript,...
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Set the Width for a Google Maps InfoWindow
Working with Google Maps v3 is way fun. If you’re a masochist. Scrolling InfoWindow It seems like there’s no easy way to set the width of an InfoWindow. You can set the minWidth parameter, but that...
View ArticleRestoring VVV functionality to Pressmatic
I switched from developing using Vagrant with VVV to using the new Mac app Pressmatic. I’ve been very happy, and so has my Mac—the dev environment runs much faster and my computer has been working a...
View ArticleTranslating Multiple Branches of Your Premium Plugin with Transifex
Since GravityView launched in 2014, we have used Transifex to manage translations. Our process has always relied on a single translation resource file, and we’ve had the same flow over time: Create an...
View ArticleAllow customers to update their cards in disabled gateways using Easy Digital...
Last year, GravityView was using PayPal Pro to process credit card transations with our shopping cart, Easy Digital Downloads. Over time, we became frustrated with the error rate of PayPal...
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Is your Easy Digital Downloads AJAX request taking too long to load?
TLDR: If you want faster credit card AJAX load times in EDD, disable the “Show previously used cards” setting in EDD. Hint: It only happens when you or a customer are logged-in. I’ve recently found...
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UserVoice Gadget API
I wanted to learn what data is sent by the UserVoice Inspector Gadgets (I do appreciate the name ), but there was no information I could find online. Here’s some basic information about the HTTP...
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A quick Doxygen fix for @type
Doxygen doesn’t recognize the @type docblock tag. That’s a problem, since at GravityView, we try to replicate WordPress core’s usage of the @type docblock tags to define nested values in associative...
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