In this post I’ll describe how to create a simple Hello World plugin that gets its content from React. The WordPress plugin will use a shortcode to generate its content from a React App ( the React App is built / bootstrapped using the Create React App cmd line tool ). Prerequisite: I will presume … Read more
Today I needed to see what javascript was triggered on a change event (when a checkbox was clicked), my go to for seeing what event is triggered is Chrome (Event Listener Breakpoints). update: Doh, realised you can do it just by clicking control->change , see screenshot. old way I did it I selected mouse click … Read more
In this post I’m going to allow EC2 to use S3 to store files. I’m going todo this 2 ways: First simple access (less secure, not for production), EC2 instance can do anything on S3 Secondly , I will limit what the EC2 instance can do (read, write only on a specific bucket using its … Read more
In this post I’ll talk about the optimising / configuring I did on Apache. So my site could live happily on its new home of AWS EC2 small instance ( running Amazon Linux ). The guide below covers sites that get maybe a few hundred page views per day (if you have bigger traffic you … Read more
This is an article I’m currently working on (its just rough notes at the moment). Java features ( Java 8 and beyond ) eg var for variables in methods Spring Boot Can be up and running as fast as a Laravel app ( can even have a prod grade server, so just start server and … Read more
In this post I’ll run over how to setup WP-CLI on a Docker web server image ( so you can easily use it todo a Database find and replace , would is handy when you need to migrate a site from one place to another ). This presumes you have PHP setup on the command … Read more