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Register a Gutenberg block from PHP

SnippetJuly 19, 20181 min read

Disabling Gutenberg for one post type only

NoteJune 8, 20181 min read

A site where the new editor is right for pages and wrong for a heavily customised product type needs the decision per type rather than globally. This is…

A must-use plugin survives a theme switch, which is the point

NoteMay 30, 20181 min read

Registering a post type in functions.php ties the site’s content model to its appearance, so changing the theme deletes the URLs. Must-use plugins load before regular ones and…

posts_per_page = -1 is a production incident waiting

NoteMay 30, 20182 min read

It means unlimited, and it is fine on a development site with forty posts. The site it eventually runs on has forty thousand. fields => ‘ids’ is the…

wc_get_orders instead of a WP_Query on shop_order

NoteMay 27, 20182 min read

Querying orders with WP_Query couples the code to orders being posts, which is the thing WooCommerce spent 3.0 making replaceable. It returns order objects rather than posts, so…

Transients expire, and the object cache changes what that means

NoteMay 9, 20182 min read

Without a persistent object cache a transient is a row in wp_options with an expiry, and with one it is a cache entry that may be evicted at…

A wp-cli command of your own is one class and one register call

NoteApril 26, 20182 min read

Anything run more than twice against a site — a reindex, a backfill, a report — is better as a command than as a page in the admin…

A meta box that still works, with the flag that says so

NoteApril 18, 20182 min read

Most meta boxes still render in the new editor through a compatibility layer, and the ones that break do so because they rely on the DOM around them…

rest_prepare_post is where you add a field without breaking one

NoteApril 18, 20182 min read

Adding data to an existing REST response by filtering the prepared object is tempting and is the wrong hook — there is a registration function that also documents…

The REST API cannot be turned off any more, only restricted

NoteApril 18, 20182 min read

Disabling the REST API with a filter that returns an error for unauthenticated requests was a common hardening step, and on 5.0 it breaks the editor completely. The…