ZATZ Lab Notes
It’s not the years. It’s the lines of code.
Seamless Donations get Funds custom post type
Started migrating the funds settings tab to the new framework. The legacy funds record is the WordPress option 'dgx_donate_designated_funds' consisting of an array with the key being the fund name and the value being either "HIDDEN" or "SHOW," for whether the fund is...
Salesforce.com on email client market share
According to Salesforce, Gmail has moved up to #2 in email client market share, after iPhone.
Started coding Seamless Donations 4.0 admin interface
Started coding Seamless Donations 4.0. Created an admin-new source folder and a new-admin-loader.php file that is called by the original dgx-donate-admin.php file. The new admin loader will be used to bring in the new library of admin screens while migrating between...
Using Mandrill for SMTP email delivery
After years and years of running my own SMTP servers and dealing with all the delivery hassles and quirks, I've been very happy to delegate that task to cloud services. We now run our firm's email through Google's servers and that works well. However, when dealing...
When it rains, it pours (another plugin adoption)
Wow! When it rains, it pours. In a completely strange twist of fate, I've adopted another orphan plugin: Better Recent Posts Widget (along with it's big brother pro version). For those of you who haven't been breathlessly following along, I adopted Seamless Donations...
I just adopted the Seamless Donations WordPress plugin
Today's an exciting day! I just adopted a great plugin from the WordPress.org plugin repository, Seamless Donations. This plugin makes it possible for non-profits to accept donations via PayPal in any WordPress website (except for WordPress.com). The original...
Some basic notes on Google Fonts API usage
My new project, which sadly does not yet have a codename (or a T-shirt), will be using Google Fonts and allowing its users to use them as well. Here are a set of useful resources on Google Fonts: To use Google Fonts, you will need an API key. Here's a quick, slightly...
Dial coding notes about Admin Page Framework field type pack
I want to be able to use multiple dials side-by-side. Here are some notes about making that happen. About extra margin at the bottom of the dial Setting the height may remove the bottom margin, like this. 'attributes' => array( 'data-width' => 100, 'data-height' =>...
Date coding notes about Admin Page Framework field type pack
This page contains notes derived from tech questions asked of APF's developer. Code from the Field Type Pack They are in the directory admin-page-framework-field-type-pack/include/class/admin/demo. About changing the size of the date field in a widget You may use the...
Putting Redux and Admin Page Framework to the test
I downloaded and attempted to build a small project with both Admin Page Framework and ReduxFramework. It quickly became apparent that there were some tangible differences. Admin Page Framework makes it very easy to create widgets, so I went to town building a DaysTo...
