WordPress – Chuck Grimmett

Jan 21, 2023

Bookmarked https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gateway-dummy. TIL This extension allows you to test payments on a Woo store, includes subs support, etc. Also on: website

WordPress 6.1 Sponsored Contributor Stats

Data and Visualization

Nov 12, 2022

A month ago I wrote a post about stats for WP Core releases and received some good feedback on it. Some folks also pointed out that Jb Audras writes better general stats posts for releases than what I put together, and I agree! One thing that I found was missing from all other sources was stats on sponsored contributors,…

If a Visitor is There to See: WP-Cron and the Clock of the Long Now

Miscellaneous

Sep 8, 2022

If a Visitor is There to See: WP-Cron and the Clock of the Long Now

What do WP-Cron and the 10,000 Year Clock of the Long Now have in common? They both only tell time if someone is there to see them. Huh? Most clocks have a power source to keep their faces updated. But in a clock buried deep in a mountain, why waste energy updating the clock face…

Migrate your Etsy Shop to your own website

Recommendations

Feb 27, 2022

Etsy recently hit sellers with a 30% fee increase on sales, not including the processing fees, listing fees, platform store fee, and marketing fees (opt-in) they charge. They are taking quite a cut from indie sellers! They do provide a nice service and a built-in community. But indie sellers that have their own social following…

Switching from Jekyll back to WordPress

Development

Nov 11, 2020

This blog started on WordPress in 2008 and moved to Jekyll in 2015. Now it is back on WordPress. Here is how I did the migration.

Building JSON for WPComplete in Excel with Concatenate

TIL

Jan 29, 2018

Building JSON for WPComplete in Excel with Concatenate

TIL how to build JSON strings in Excel with concatenate.

Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll

Development

Jan 21, 2018

Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll

Earlier this week I did a major revamp of cagrimmett.com. It started with redesigning my page templates to include a sidebar, then it morphed into making a long-standing goal of mine reality: Reviving the posts from my old 2008-2012 WordPress blog and getting them into Jekyll while preserving old links. Here’s how I did it.

WordPress Template Hierarchy

TIL

Jan 4, 2018

TIL a ton about the WordPress template hierarchy and the conditionals that select them.

Genesis Framework’s Hooks and Filters

TIL

Jan 3, 2018

TIL about Genesis hooks and filters.

My WordPress Development, Testing, and Deployment Workflows

Dec 21, 2017

Using Homestead, WPengine, and Git.

Bulk Clearing Expiration Dates in Restrict Content Pro

TIL

Dec 4, 2017

Bulk Clearing Expiration Dates in Restrict Content Pro

At Praxis we use Restrict Content Pro as the membership system for our curriculum portal. We decided that all grads get access for life, not just during the program. So, I needed a way to clear over 200 member expiration dates. Here is how I accomplished that task with SQL.