Author: Ross Wintle

😀 I don’t mean to be trite or dismissive of all the bad stuff in the world, but we need to laugh more and be excited about small things.

I love Dave and Chris on Shop Talk Show podcast. They just sound like they’re having a good time chatting.

I love The Vergecast. They’re enjoying hanging out.

So much “content” is stale and boring and safe.

I want to hear more people enjoying themselves.

JavaScript question/help…

Context: I’m building a bunch of DOM elements from an array of configuration objects.

The objects might have callbacks that need to be called on events on the created DOM elements.

Question: Is it OK to just add the callbacks as “custom properties” on the DOM elements when creating them? Is that bad for some reason? Is there a better way?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. This is vanilla JS. No framework!!

Today I was reminded that a well known Laravel guy made an interesting-looking #WordPress plugin release automation service!

https://wppm.io/

This is good. Outlining is apparently something I take for granted, but others don’t? I'm not sure it's the advertised 10x speed improvement. But definitely a better way of approaching some tasks.

https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/

So what happened today that made loads of the Uk decide Twitter is bad?

Turbo Admin for #WordPress update today. v1.16.0 fixes a bug discovered by Phil Kurth (https://philkurth.com.au/) – thank you – and introduces a new menu-hiding feature.

This is great if you have a cluttered left-hand admin menu. You can alt/option-click items to move them to a new expandable section and then just access those items using the command palette! Yay! This is early/experimental – let me know what you think.

Docs: https://turbo-admin.com/hide-menu-items

Ahh, I like Rhys’s newsletter. #WordPress, SEO and gaming. What’s not to like? And he’s just a nice chap! 😃
https://toot.wales/@rhyswynne/112960017887096594

What's a #WordPress plugin that totally unnecessarily adds a top-level menu item? (In your opinion)

I got a bit stuck with this this week. I think the docs aren't quite right and neither Google not ChatGPT helped me out. So I'm helping me and you out!

#WordPress REST API Auth nonces in POST requests:

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/08/wordpress-rest-api-auth-nonces-in-post-requests/

Nice things…

2) For some weird reason I never discovered the Logitech wired game controller I bought a while back didn’t work with some games on my Mac. But I finally bought an 8Bitdo wireless controller and it’s a really nice bit of kit and has got me playing No Mans Sky again. It’s so much better on the Mac than the Switch. Making me happy!!

Nice things…

1) Our recent holiday was at this place: https://www.bournemouthbeachlodges.co.uk/

The lodges are really cute and well designed and equipped. Was great with 12+8 yo, but I think it would be hard with older kids as there are no “rooms”. It’s like a two-storey open plan caravan. But we were quite happy there! 😃

Recommended!!

LOL. Well done Reform UK’s web developers, who were using a Facebook tracking pixel without consent.

“It said the tracking tool had been embedded because Reform’s site was made using a template that included it”

“A spokesperson for the party said any issues with the Meta pixel appeared to be “cock-up rather than conspiracy”.”

Amateurs. 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/10/reform-uk-tracked-private-user-information-without-consent

Was gonna see if I could quickly add plugin activate/dectivate to Turbo Admin's command palette, but turns out it needs some bigger changes to make that happen.

I know how to do it now though. And I know it's possible. So it WILL be on the roadmap!

Trying to get the #WordPress REST API to let me activate/deactivate a plugin using login cookies and a nonce.

Still getting 401 responses – unauthorized.

Is this simply not possible? Is it required to have an application password or something?

I'm not sure I like this now that I've build it into Turbo Admin. Will have to see. (There's some niggles to fix first too)

It may be that it's better for where you have plugins that insist on having their own top-level menu item.

Reminder: The hidden items AND the open/closed state is saved not just within one site, but across all sites (if you use the browser extension).

So you can, for example, hide Yoast SEO *everywhere*!

Kinda sad that the BBC isn't showing any of the olympic breaking. I was excited to see some of that!

I'm toying with the idea that, if you have a command palette, you may not need all the menu items. So maybe Turbo Admin should be able to hide menus… ?

(On all of your WP dashboards, of course!)