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WordPress & JavaScript “Admin Edition”

Posted by lcleveland in Development, WordPress

WordPress does some odd things when it comes to managing the DOM elements, especially when it comes to JavaScript and CSS. WordPress has crafted their own creative PHP methodology for getting data from PHP into JavaScript when loading the scripts. This allows for JavaScript variables to be “pre-initialized” when the scripts are first rendered.

Useful for getting a known starting state in JavaScript based on PHP state and logic that has run up to the point that the scripts are loaded.

Not standard AT ALL given today’s single page app and other advanced methodologies just as REST queries, etc. that could do the same job.

xDebug with phpStorm

Posted by lcleveland in Development, Environment, WordPress

VVV -enabled vagrant boxes are “ready to go” with real-time xDebug debugging. You’ll need to enable it after you’ve booted the guest OS by getting into the guest via command line.

Boot your vagrant box.

vagrant ssh

Once you are into the guest type…

xdebug_on

The xdebug broadcaster is now enabled for the guest OS. Any time you surf to a guest web page it will broadcast Xdebug data. Your IDE should be able to listen for xdebug publications and associate the local code to the xdebug publication. It may require that you “map” your folder structure from your IDE to the relevant server-named path, for example map ~/MyDrive/vagrant-local/www/wordpress-one/public_html to /srv/www/wordpress-one/public_html for it to associate the code in the IDE to the code in the server broadcast messages.

Fresh VVV Setup for Plugin Dev

Posted by lcleveland in Environment, Store Locator Plus®, WordPress

Starting out you’ll need…

Virtualbox (6.1)
Vagrant (2.2.15)
Install the vagrant-goodhost plugins
A running copy of git

This is all per the VVV System Requirements

Getting the box up…

Clone of VVV to a local directory.

git clone -b stable git://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV.git ./vagrant-local

# vagrant up

This will download, build, and boot a default WordPress box.

Getting the SLP software

Fork the main SLP bitbucket repo to your own local copy.

Clone that fork into the one.wordpress.test wp-content/plugins directory…

cd ./vagrant-local/www/wordpress-one/public_html/wp-content/plugins/ # git clone git@bitbucket.org:lance_cleveland/store-locator-plus.git

# git checkout develop