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HowTo Upload a plugin to the WordPress repository via svn

Post author By Ben Rothman
Post date October 1, 2023

Checkout the svn repository using the command svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/{slug here}

Make your changes and create a new branch folder with the new version of the code in it, copy the same files to the trunk folder, then execute svn add * to add the new code to the repository and allow existing versions of your plugin to be updated from the repository.

The final step after adding the new code to the commit is to add the commit message and actually commit the code. Both of those things can be accomplished with one command, svn ci -m 'commit message'

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WordPress: Cloudflare Plugin

Post author By Ben Rothman
Post date May 27, 2022
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Obviously not all WordPress sites use cloudflare, in fact many of them don’t. BUT, if you have a WordPress site and you happen to be one of the people who uses Cloudflare with the site like I do from time to time then you need the Cloudflare plugin.

Why do we need the plugin? We can control everything by logging into Cloudflare and changing the configuration there. That is true, but things like purging the server cache or turning on “development mode” (a great feature) are possible without leaving the comfort of the site if you have the Cloudflare plugin installed and configured.

Just because I know any readers are wondering, “Development Mode” suspend Cloudflare’s edge caching, minification, Polish and Railgun features for three hours so that changes to images, CSS files or Javascript files can immediately be seen by users of the site. Although the site will not load as fast, development mode is good for development since the developer is constantly changing those files and using cached versions would be silly and cause the developer to think there are problems with the new code when there are none.

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Fixed ChatPress

I installed ChatPress on a website with a new theme today and it looked squished and strange. It was still legible and everything but the whole appearance just looked a little sloppy to me. I’m sure some people would have told me the plugin looked fine and that whether it works or not (which it always did) was more important.

Functionality alone is not enough for me, so I went to work diagnosing the problem and creating a fix. I found that the problems were CSS-related so I went to my scss files, made the changes and recompiled my scss into css so that I could use them for the plugin and voila, it was fixed!

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WordPress: Formidable Forms

Post author By Ben Rothman
Post date August 16, 2020
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If you want a complex form with conditional logic, advanced scoring, user registrations and much more, Formidable Forms is the plugin for you. If you want a contact form this plugin works excellently for that too, it’s much more power than you need but it is a good solution.

Formidable forms has an easy-to-use graphical interface to build forms, and then can add conditional logic/assign scores or values to responses right there. If you need to refer to the value of a field in the value of another field, email it or otherwise use it elsewhere in the form, you can just refer to the index number associated with that field or use a url parameter right in the Formidable Forms interface.

If you need complicated and very powerful forms on your site and do not want to build them with code then this is the plugin for you.

There is even a very useful API add-on that I used at work to create API sends to specific endpoints and with specific data including but not limited to the data entered on the form.

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