Improving wp_delete_post in WordPress Core
One of the common processes that runs in Store Locator Plus is deleting locations. For sites with a few dozen locations the process runs smoothly. For sites with thousands of locations but deleting one or two at… Read More
Optimizing JavaScript for Chrome
A recent discussion with a tech guru at Automattic posed a great question — how does JavaScript asynchronous processing work on a single-threaded app? Great question, but before I found out how that worked I decided to refresh… Read More
Should The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?
WordPress LOVES backwards compatibility as can be witnessed by the minimum-allowed WordPress PHP version remaining at 5.2.4 a decade after its end-of-life date. It may be one of the reasons they have continued to garner market share. Don’t require… Read More
Using PHP Anonymous Functions In WordPress
Recently I published an article “Adding WordPress REST API Security To Basic CRUD Operations” where the permissions callback points directly to a function:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | register_rest_route( SLP_REST_SLUG . '/' . $version, '/locations/', array( 'methods' => WP_REST_Server::EDITABLE, 'callback' => array( $this, 'add_location' ) , 'permission_callback' => function () { return current_user_can( 'manage_slp_user' ); } , 'args' => array( 'sl_store' => array( 'required' => true ), ) ) ); |
This style of defining a function call is known in PHP as an anonymous… Read More
