I use PhpStorm for most of my web development. It is a great IDE for PHP and WordPress. One thing that I have always found a little strange is its interface for managing projects. It is very… basic. Really, the only features it contains are grouping projects into folders and changing the icons for projects. […]
Using Gravity Forms’ Constant Contact Function to Subscribe Users
I recently was working on a project where the client had a Constant Contact account and Gravity Forms installed on their WordPress site. Using Gravity Forms’ add-on for Constant Contact it was easy to subscribe users to Constant Contact lists for those forms created with Gravity Forms. However, the project was also utilizing The Events […]
Use Tab Modifier Extension to Distinguish Environment
One of the issues I often have when working on a site that has launched is that I often need to switch between the local and production versions of the site. This, of course, means that I keep each location in a different tab so I can easily change between the two. However, because both […]
Inserting JavaScript with a Shortcode
Have you ever needed to insert a piece of JavaScript into a single post or page? Maybe there is an external contact form from a vendor that you’ve been given a snippet of JavaScript to include? There are a number of ways to do this. You could put a conditional in your template file and […]
Adding Post Type and Slug to the Body Classes
When I first started working with WordPress, in order to style things on a particular page, I often would use the page or post’s ID to target the styles for that page. After all, out-of-the-box, WordPress gives you a class on the body tag containing the post type and the ID like postid-455 or page-id-525. […]
Download YouTube Videos Using youtube-dl
There have been times when I have wanted to be able to add videos to my laptop or other portable device from YouTube to watch when I don’t have access to an Internet connection. For example, nothing makes a flight go by quicker than watching Rick Wolf and the bots play through Fallout 4. There […]
Simple WordPress PlugIn to Replace Excerpt With Full Post
I recently posted my lame joke video mashing together The Andy Griffith with Star Wars. In posting it, the excerpt for the post was showing on my site’s homepage and one had to click through to watch the video. There was nothing much to the text of the post – the only thing of note […]
Bartender for Mac
If you’re a Macintosh user, you probably appreciate a clean interface and nice aesthetics. One thing that can cause your Mac’s interface to become cluttered, though, is a myriad of icons in your menu bar. Many programs will allow you to turn off its menu bar icon but not all. Worse yet, you might have […]
I’m Concerned About the Direction Ron Howard is Taking Star Wars
I just saw a trailer for Ron Howard’s upcoming movie about Han Solo and… I have a bad feeling about this. My apologies for the quick and dirty video editing. I didn’t want to spend too much time for a lame joke!
Move to the End and Beginning of a Word in PHPStorm
Another Macintosh keyboard shortcut that will be second nature to most Mac users is using ⌥← to move to the beginning of a word and ⌥→ to move to the end of a word. This moves the cursor to the left of the first character or the right of the last character. Try it in Mail. In […]