A few posts back I mentioned that a benefit of having a dashcam is you can post your interesting clips for internet points. There are plenty of YouTube channels dedicated to compiling such footage, and I feel I'm a better and more defensive driver having watched very many of them over the years.
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Always visually inspect the chamber
I don't want to use the dorky phrase "lives rent-free in my head" as many of the terminally online do, but I'm not sure anything better describes it. Here we have a guy doing not one but two negligent discharges, back to back, in his apartment:
Debug PHP variables discreetly
If you don't have Xdebug involved in your current project, you may be relying on var_dump or var_export to check on things while coding. Depending on where in the code this happens, their output can get in the way of the rendering of a given page or be hard to read given where it lands ⸺ in one part of a three-column block, for instance.
Get a damned dashcam already!
You ever come across a traffic jam caused by people who were in a small accident and then left their rides in the road? They're endangering themselves and others and causing traffic issues by blocking a lane or three. What are they even doing?
Get a list of all WordPress hooks that have run
In order to truly catch them all, we can use a "must-use" plugin. These live in the /wp-content/mu-plugins folder as flat PHP files that are automatically included, in alphabetical order, before much has happened in the WordPress core loading process.
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Getting around stupid paywalls
Paywalls have gotten quite prevalent over the years for a number of reasons I won't get into. I used to work for a company whose main income was selling ads on their posts about news, events, and the like, so I get the appeal of wanting people to pay for content.
WordPress shortcodes don't need fully-qualified parameters
In other words, you don't need to do something like this...
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Nested pages cannot be found with WP_Query
It's hard to believe, I know, but despite its massive list of available parameters, WP_Query somehow doesn't seem to have the tools available to look for grandchildren (and beyond) when querying hierarchical post types. Due to it only supporting the post_parent field, you end up having to nest queries, use custom SQL, or use post__in with a secondary call of some sort to fill the "in" set of posts through which WP_Query will look.
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Police departments will buy anything except more training
Following Fairfax's lead, the Richmond's police department has bought into the snake oil known as BolaWrap.
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Get the WordPress document title with less work (maybe)
Reusable hero or banner partials often require more robust title-sniffing operations given to their placement inside or outside of The Loop™. In these, a simple the_title() call sometimes won't suffice, so you'll have to figure out what kind of view you're looking at and adjust the title accordingly.
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