During work on Cutify Media Marketing’s new WordPress competition sites I encountered a problem with WordPress image uploads. The following code was called to attach an uploaded image to a WordPress post and set it as the WordPress featured image, or post thumbnail as its called in the code.. The problem is that the code kept […]

There are often times when your data has a “belongsToMany” relationship. Laravel handles this relationship really beautifully! I learn best by example, so we’ll do this post as an example I’m currently working on. In our application we have multiple related websites. Each of these sites stands on its own with users being able to […]

The problem I recently did a site for a client in wordpress which required a custom user type. These users needed to be able to use the media library but only to see their own media files. One would have thought that this is actually quite a common scenario so I thought that implementing it […]

Having installed Laravel you’ll now want to create your first Laravel website. Creating the new Laravel site In the command line navigate to the parent directory which contains all your web projects. On my Ubuntu system my projects are all in /var/www/html, so on the command line: cd /var/www/html Decide on a name for your […]

To manage your js and css files in Laravel you could place your js and css files in the public directory, but using the /resources/assets folder you can add your js and css (sass or less, etc) in there. You then need to compile these with nodejs and NPM. To install nodejs / npm on […]

Laravel is a PHP framework so we need to start with a L(W)AMP server of some sort. We recommend PHP 7 but from PHP 5.6 will do. Laravel is easiest to install with Composer. Once Composer is installed according to their instructions, we can use it to install Laravel. There are different methods of installing […]

I was recently working on a project which involved using WordPress cron for some automated tasks. Although the function wrapping the call to the WordPress even scheduler reported being called, the ‘work’ was not being done (in this case retrieving data from a remote server). This was particularly strange because if I ran the functionality […]

I was recently tasked with assisting in setting up a website which needed, amongst other things a Learner Management System. One of the go to LMS for WordPress is the Learndash plugin. I installed Learndash and then proceeded to set up a test course. Now, the idea with this website (which I believe is common […]

RedirectMatch uses a regular expression that is matched against the URL path. And your regular expression /contact.php just means any URL path that contains /contact.php but not just any URL path that is exactly /contact.php. So use the anchors for the start and end of the string (^ and $): RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact\.php$ /contact-us.php redirect […]

This plugin adds spam checks to catch contact form 7 spam. It does so in the background without annoying your legitimate users with captchas. It adds a hidden field to the your contact form 7 form and then checks when a contact form 7 is submitted for that field. If its not present, or its […]