Category: all of the things

TLDR: The most reliable way for me was to set the correct safe.directory using environment variables in the appropriate Dockerfile like so: Documentation on these environment variables and the config file is here. What happened? I’ve been idly working through setting up a local environment based on XWP’s VIP Site Template. When I went to…

This is for contributing to WooCommerce development here not developing client sites with WooCommerce. configuration in launch.json start xdebug with wp-env

Getting blocks running on the front end is, or should be, mainly a matter of updating Webpack to create the script to run on the front end, then enqueuing it so it does. However, I’ve always found it requires some fixing of things that don’t work quite right together, that I’ve misnamed or otherwise mismatched…

On the front end, I need access to the block’s attributes so I can use those in building the front end block. Instead of rendering the block as normal (either as a dynamic block or saved html), I’ll put in a filter to render something which looks like this:

These are my notes on getting WPWebDriver in wp-browser set up to work for me. They supplement rather than replace the wp-browser documentation. If you are having issues and haven’t started there and followed the directions, I highly recommend doing that first. Inifinum also has a super helpful section on setting up wp-browser.

This is to separate out the building of the block and adding it to our scaffold. The front end will not be reactive yet, however it’d be nice to go ahead and add that in to the back end so we can see it in action.

Block scaffolds are being created, updated or going out of date at a regular rate these days as developers figure out what works best for them. So instead of making a recommendation on which one you should use, I’m going to tell you what I looked for – what was important to *me at the…

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…

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.…