This is a workaround and fix for the following situation which occurs in recent versions (<3.0.12) of WooCommerce Subscriptions. When purchasing a subscription which is limited to “any” (ie a user can only have one subscription of any status), the user cannot pay for a failed order as the subscription product gets removed from their …
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People love to play with a little web app on a site. Quizzes, small games, anything to take a break for a minute or two. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to add and edit these in the WordPress editor then reuse the React components on the front end? Yes! The answer is yes. …
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This was going to be “things I liked this year” but books are the easiest for me. One thing I’ve loved doing is the goodreads challenge – here is mine for 2020, it’s simply “read 52 books in 52 weeks”. I don’t put all the books on it, no one really needs to know when …
Spoiler: the issue is in the css-loader update and the fix is outlined here. The css-loader needs the esModule: false option. My final webpack.config.js looks like this: More on the issue I was updating an old-ish (3 years) Vue app which had been updated but not regularly. I got everything working again as you do …
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This is a proof of concept web app, completely editable in WordPress using the block editor. I think it’s more fun to do it first. (Please let me know if these don’t work, they’re version 0.1. Saving them will save to your browser only.) Fill in the blanks then click “your poem” to see your …
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The issue When I first put this site on Gatsby, I found adding comments tricky. I used this blog post, Dynamic Comments with Gatsby and WordPress, tweaked it a bit and shoved it in. I only used it for the comments form because I wasn’t worried about rebuilding – I really just wanted to see …
Massive caveat: Currently (24 July 2020) Okta does not support automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates and renewals for custom domains. So I’ll have to do this <= 89 days from now again. Which is why I’m writing it down. Ideally this post will not be needed soon because Okta will set up one click, auto renewing …
caveat: this is an “I don’t really know what I’m doing but it’s working, so….” post. This blog is on Netlify and uses Gatsby to build it from the a WordPress install (I’m typing this on the WP install, it’ll get built by Netlify and published there.) Because I’m a lazy sod, I’m just leaving …
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