Life in Code

If you're using the WordPress REST API, you may want to protect certain endpoints from unauthenticated access. The user endpoint is particularly sensitive, as it can contain sensitive information such as email addresses and usernames. In this blog post, we'll… Read more

A CloudFront distribution can serve your website to users in a CDN, which means that they experience faster load times. It can also be used for adding various security features such as adding a Web Application Firewall (WAF), adding your… Read more

The following makes use of the Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation Addon and handles adding a file from a specific Gravity Forms file field to the an Advanced Custom Fields post created by the plugin. You could also look to… Read more

A simple helper function that I use in most WordPress websites to output a short description or summary of a post. This will use the post excerpt content in full if it has been defined for the post, or return… Read more

The following code will only return authors of a specific role from the generated Yoast XML sitemap. In the example, users of the 'editor' role are returned. Add the following to your functions.php file: /** * Filter Yoast authors -… Read more

There may be times when you need to add to the WHERE clause within a WP_Query call for additional SQL filtering that cannot easily be achieved via the standard parameters. The following is a simple example that passes through a… Read more