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Empty string passed to getElementById() bootstrap dropdown menu

Byemino Wednesday September 6th, 2017Wednesday September 6th, 2017

Just use javascript:void(0) instead of # for href

You might encounter this error most likely in Firefox Console

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You can not use conditional tags on init
Byemino Saturday February 1st, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

Queries are only available after “wp” action hook, so ‘init’ is too early to check for it.

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rookie mistake isset($_POST
Byemino Saturday March 28th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

*facepalm* $_POST is always set, it can only be empty.

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WP nav menu disappears on category page
Byemino Thursday February 6th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

My navigation menu started disappearing on category pages. First I suspected there was something with the header or menu location, I have double, triple checked everything and I was pulling my hair out trying to find a solution. Turns out, my attempt to order posts by a custom field interfered with the menu. if( ! $query->is_main_query())…

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Coding | Note to self | wordpress

Some people (hint: starts with me) just dont learn
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Time and again i fall for this same simple mistake. This may not be intuitive in the context of serialized arrays. If you fetch a serialized array with this method you want $single to be true to actually get an unserialized array back. If you pass in false, or leave it out, you will have…

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Local timestamp problem
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Always check for local time Despite the fact that my server timezone was set correctly, somehow time() was giving wrong ( UTC) hour. So i ended up using wp’s functions to make sure. $now = current_time( ‘timestamp’, 0 ) ;$local_ts = get_the_time(‘U’,$post->ID);

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Checking if string contains numbers
Byemino Sunday December 1st, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

is_numeric doesnt check strings for numbers. You need to use preg_match(‘#[0-9]#’,$string)

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