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Category: Web Development

WordPress show when article was published – x hours ago, Yesterday, and date

WordPress show when article was published x seconds ago 2 mins ago 14 hours ago Yesterday or date

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    /**
     * Get post date in three different format
     * If in the pass 24 hours, then show x hours ago
     * If it was yesterday, then show Yesterday
     * Else show date
     * @param String $date
     */
    public function _date($date){
 
        // get timestamp for post date
        $post_timestamp = strtotime($date);
 
        // get timestamp for current date
        $current_timestamp = strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
 
        // get the differnce
        $diff = $current_timestamp - $post_timestamp;
 
        // get 24 hours in seconds
        $twenty_four_hours = 86400;
 
        // get 48 hours in seconds
        $fourty_eight_hours = $twenty_four_hours * 2;
 
        if($diff <= 60){
            return $diff . ' seconds ago';
        }
 
        if($diff > 60 && $diff <= 3600){
            return round($diff / 60) . ' minutes ago';
        }
 
        // if the difference is less than 24 hours
        if($diff < $twenty_four_hours){
            return round($diff / 3600) . ' hours ago';
        }
 
        // if it's yesterday
        // eg. if it's more than 24 hours but less than 48 hours
        if($diff > $twenty_four_hours && $diff < $fourty_eight_hours){
            return 'Yesterday';
        }
 
        return date("j F Y", $post_timestamp);
    }

WordPress class to update meta key

Expected usage

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include(get_stylesheet_directory() . "/MetaKey.php");
$my_meta = new MetaKey(array(
    'meta_key' => 'post_views_counter',
    'modifier' => function($counter){
        return $counter + 1;
    }
));
 
$context['post_counter'] = $my_meta->get();

Class

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<?php
 
/**
* Class for getting the value of a meta key
* of each post / article
*/
class MetaKey{
 
    public $key;
 
    /**
     * Constructor
     * Set meta key
     */
    public function __construct($args){
        $this->key = $args['meta_key'];
        $this->set($args['modifier']);
    }
 
    /**
     * Return the value of the meta key
     * @return Int value of a meta key
     */
    public function get(){
        return get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $this->key, true);
    }
 
    /**
     * Modify the value using the modifier callback function
     * to edit the meta value
     * @param Function modifier function
     * @return Void
     */
    public function set($modifier){
        $post_id = get_the_ID();
        $value = (int) get_post_meta($post_id, $this->key, true);
        $value = $modifier($value);
        update_post_meta($post_id, $this->key, $value);
    }
}

Vue.js as Distributable Library

Vue.js as Distributable Library Github: https://github.com/Ansonhkg/distributable-vue-library/ Demo Cheat sheet Expected Usage Your Project Foo index.html Inside <head>

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    <!-- your built vue library -->
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/vue"></script>
    <script src="./v/0.0.1/configure.umd.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./v/0.0.1/configure.css">

before </body>

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<!-- place this before </body> -->
<div id="configure-app">
    <configure-app></configure-app>
</div>
 
<script>
    const vm = new Vue({
      components: {
        configureApp: configure
      }
    }).$mount('#configure-app');
 
    const configureApp = vm.$options.components.configureApp.methods;
</script>

Your Vue APP Build your app with this command

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yarn build --target lib --inline-vue --name configure --dest v/0.0.1

Reference: https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/build-targets.html#library

WordPress template with Timber and advanced custom fields.

Seting up WordPress development environment Git clone my repository git clone https://github.com/Ansonhkg/docker-wp-sql.git –branch bakery Run docker-compose up and wait for 20 seconds. Go to localhost and follow the installation. Install essential wordpress plugins Timber Github Git clone the theme to your themes directory.

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git clone https://github.com/timber/starter-theme.git .

Change the folder name. Change the Theme Name from style.css Change […]

My published shared components

Shared UI components https://github.com/Ansonhkg/bit-collection or https://bit.dev/ansonhkg or https://my-collection.now.sh Shared Javascript libraries https://github.com/Ansonhkg/utils or https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ansonhkg/utils

WordPress REST endpoint to accept special characters

WordPress REST endpoint to accept special Issue: unrecognized character in URL

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{
    code: "rest_no_route",
    message: "No route was found matching the URL and request method",
    data: {
        status: 404
    }
}
 

Expected Usage

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// type this to address bar
http://localhost/wp-json/search/posts/this is a test
 
// once entered, it will turn into url encoded string
http://localhost/wp-json/search/posts/this%20is%20a%20test

Output

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"this is a test"

WordPress register custom REST API

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    /**
     * Initialize APIs
     */
    public function init_APIs(){
        add_action('rest_api_init', array($this, 'register_route'));
    }
 
    /**
     * Register API route
     * Setup API at /wp-json/search/posts/{value}
     */
    public function register_route(){
 
        $args = array(
            'methods' => 'GET',
            'callback' => array($this, 'api_get_posts'),
        );
 
        register_rest_route(
            'search',
            '/posts/(?P<value>[\w+].+)',
            $args
        );
    }
 
    /**
     * API callback:: get posts by string
     * @param Array $args['value']
     * @return JSON
     */
    public function api_get_posts($args){
        $value = str_replace('%20', ' ', $args['value']);
        return $value;
    }

Structuring CSS for HTML Components. Separation of concerns.

Structuing CSS/HTML (Separation of concerns) First, I will divice CSS into categories: Settings

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/** ========== settings ========== */
$font-family: 'Tahoma';

Color Scheme

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/** ========== color scheme ========== */
$black: black;
$white: white;
$grey: whitesmoke;

General (eg. *, body, Scrollbar, etc.)

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/** ========== general ========== **/
*, body{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    font-family: $font-family;
}

Rows (or wrapper components)

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/** ========== row/wrapper components ========== **/
.row{
 
}
.row-full{
 
}
.row-fixed-width{
 
}

Layout (or grid components)

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/** ========== layout/grid components ========== **/
.content{
    background: $white;
    padding-left: 30px;
    padding-right: 30px;
}
 
// ----- default content
.content-default{
 
}
 
// ----- other types
.content-black{
 
}

Content components A default content-default style Different types of content eg. content-title, content-description

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/** ========== content components ========== **/
.content-title{
 
}
.content-description{
 
}

Spacing components

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/** ========== spacing components ========== **/
.line{
  border-bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 0.1em;
  margin: 10px 0;
 
  &-no-bottom{
    margin-bottom: 0;
  }
 
  &-no-top{
    margin-top: 0;
  }
 
  &-4-top{
    margin-top: 4px;
  }
}

Individual components

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/** ========== individual components ========== **/
.logo{
 
}

Quick VUE workflow for a HTML/CSS Template.

My quick VUE workflow for a HTML/CSS template. Create a project vue create hello-world Using Pre-Processors yarn add sass-loader node-sass Add scripts on mounted Expected Usage

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  mounted(){
    // font awesome script
    this.addScript("https://kit.fontawesome.com/a076d05399.js", 'js');
  },

method

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  methods: {
    addScript(url, type='js') {
 
      if(type === 'js'){
        let script = document.createElement("script");
        script.setAttribute("src", url);
        document.head.appendChild(script);
      }
 
      if(type === 'css'){
        let script = document.createElement("style");
        script.setAttribute("rel", 'text/css');
        script.setAttribute("type", 'stylesheet');
        script.setAttribute("href", url);
        document.head.appendChild(script);
      }
    }
  }

WordPress Custom Fields Plugin Snippet

A little snippetto show how customer fields works in WordPress Expected Usage

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new SY_Custom_Fields(array(
    'page_title' => 'Admin Settings',
    'menu_title' => 'SY:: Admin Settings',
    'slug' => 'sy_admin_settings',
    'icon' => 'dashicons-admin-plugins',
    'add_to' => 'settings',
    'section_title' => 'Theme Settings',
    'section' => 'admin_theme_settings',
    'options' => array(
        array(
            'uid' => 'enable_admin_theme',
            'label' => 'Enable Admin Theme',
            'type' => 'checkbox',
            'options' => array(
                'true' => '',
            ),
            'default' => array(
                'false'
            ),
        ),
    )
));

Class

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class Custom_Fields {
 
    // ========== Variables ===========
    public $page_title = '';
    public $menu_title = '';
    public $capability = '';
    public $slug = '';
    public $callback = array();
    public $icon = '';
    public $position = 0;
 
    // custom variables
    public $add_to = array();
    public $options = array();
    public $section_title = '';
    public $section = '';
 
    public $parent_slugs = array(
        'dashboard' => 'index.php',
        'posts' => 'edit.php',
        'media' => 'upload.php',
        'pages' => 'edit.php?post_type=page',
        'comments' => 'edit-comments.php',
        'custom_page_types' => 'edit.php?post_type=your_post_type',
        'appearance' => 'themes.php',
        'plugins' => 'plugins.php',
        'users' => 'users.php',
        'tools' => 'tools.php',
        'settings' => 'options-general.php',
        'network_settings' => 'settings.php'
    );
 
    /**
     * Constructor
     * @param String $args['page_title']
     * @param String $args['menu_title']
     * @param String $args['slug']
     * @param String $args['icon']
     * @param String $args['add_to']
     * @param String $args['section_title']
     * @param String $args['section']
     * @param Array $args['options']
     */
    public function __construct($args) {
 
        // initialize variables
        $this->init($args);
 
        // register CSS
        wp_register_style( 'sy-custom-settings-css', plugins_url( 'sy-custom-settings/sy-custom-settings.css' ));
        wp_enqueue_style( 'sy-custom-settings-css' );
 
        // Hook into the admin menu
        add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'create_plugin_settings_page'));
 
        // Add Settings and Fields
        add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'setup_sections' ) );
        add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'setup_fields' ) );
    }
 
    /**
     * ========== Initialize variables ==========
     * @param String $args['page_title']
     * @param String $args['menu_title']
     * @param String $args['slug']
     * @param String $args['icon']
     * @param String $args['add_to']
     * @param String $args['section_title']
     * @param String $args['section']
     * @param Array $args['options']
     */
    public function init($args){
        $this->page_title = $args['page_title'];
        $this->menu_title = $args['menu_title'];
        $this->capability = 'manage_options';
        $this->slug = $args['slug'];
        $this->callback = array( $this, 'plugin_settings_page_content' );
        $this->icon = $args['icon'];
        $this->position = 100;
 
        // custom
        $this->add_to = $args['add_to'];
        $this->options = $args['options'];
        $this->section_title = $args['section_title'];
        $this->section = $args['section'];
    }
 
    /**
     * ========== Plugin Settings ==========
     * Add option under a parent if it exists
     * Otherwise, create a new option menu
     */
    public function create_plugin_settings_page() {
        // add_submenu_page( $slug, $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $slug . '-sub', $callback );
 
        // check if parent slugs exists in the array already
        $parent_slug_exists = in_array($this->add_to, array_keys($this->parent_slugs));
 
        // add it under parent slug
        if($parent_slug_exists){
            $parent_slug = $this->parent_slugs[$this->add_to];
            add_submenu_page($parent_slug, $this->page_title, $this->menu_title, $this->capability, $this->slug, $this->callback );
            return;
        }
 
        // add itself as a parent slug
        add_menu_page( $this->page_title, $this->menu_title, $this->capability, $this->slug, $this->callback, $this->icon, $this->position );
 
    }
 
    /**
     * ========== Display ===========
     * The HTML side of the option page
     */
    public function plugin_settings_page_content() {?>
        <div class="wrap">
            <h2><?php echo $this->page_title; ?></h2>
            <hr>
 
            <!-- Display admin notice ---->
            <?php
            if ( isset( $_GET['settings-updated'] ) && $_GET['settings-updated'] ){
                  $this->admin_notice();
            } ?>
 
            <!-- form -->
            <form method="POST" action="options.php">
                <?php
                    settings_fields( $this->slug );
                    do_settings_sections( $this->slug );
                    submit_button();
                ?>
            </form>
        </div> <?php
    }
 
    // =========== Admin Notice ===========
    public function admin_notice() { ?>
        <div class="notice notice-success is-dismissible">
            <p>Your settings have been updated!</p>
        </div><?php
    }
 
    // =========== Setup Sections =============
    public function setup_sections() {
        add_settings_section( $this->section, $this->section_title, array( $this, 'section_callback' ), $this->slug );
        // add_settings_section( 'theme_settings', 'Theme Settings', array( $this, 'section_callback' ), $this->slug );
        // add_settings_section( 'our_third_section', 'My Third Section Title', array( $this, 'section_callback' ), $this->slug );
    }
 
    // ========== Section function callback ===========
    public function section_callback( $args ) {
        switch( $args['id'] ){
            case $this->section:
                // echo 'Settings for your Live TV';
                break;
            // case 'theme_settings':
                // echo 'This one is number two';
                // break;
            // case 'our_third_section':
            //  echo 'Third time is the charm!';
            //  break;
        }
    }
 
    // ========== Setup Fields ===========
    public function setup_fields() {
 
        $fields = $this->options;
 
        foreach( $fields as $field ){
            add_settings_field( $field['uid'], $field['label'], array( $this, 'field_callback' ), $this->slug, $this->section, $field );
            register_setting( $this->slug, $field['uid'] );
        }
        // foreach( $fields as $field ){
        //  add_settings_field( $field['uid'], $field['label'], array( $this, 'field_callback' ), $this->slug, $field['section'], $field );
        //     register_setting( $this->slug, $field['uid'] );
        // }
    }
 
    // =========== Field functions callback ==========
    public function field_callback( $args ) {
 
        $value = get_option( $args['uid'] );
 
        if( ! $value || !isset($value)) {
            $value = isset($args['default']) ? $args['default'] : null;
        }
 
        switch( $args['type'] ){
            case 'text':
            case 'password':
            case 'number':
                printf( '<input class="sy_custom_input" name="%1$s" id="%1$s" type="%2$s" placeholder="%3$s" value="%4$s" />', $args['uid'], $args['type'], $args['placeholder'], $value );
                break;
            case 'textarea':
                printf( '<textarea name="%1$s" id="%1$s" placeholder="%2$s" rows="5" cols="50">%3$s</textarea>', $args['uid'], $args['placeholder'], $value );
                break;
            case 'select':
            case 'multiselect':
                if( ! empty ( $args['options'] ) && is_array( $args['options'] ) ){
                    $attributes = '';
                    $options_markup = '';
                    foreach( $args['options'] as $key => $label ){
                        $options_markup .= sprintf( '<option value="%s" %s>%s</option>', $key, selected( $value[ array_search( $key, $value, true ) ], $key, false ), $label );
                    }
                    if( $args['type'] === 'multiselect' ){
                        $attributes = ' multiple="multiple" ';
                    }
                    printf( '<select name="%1$s[]" id="%1$s" %2$s>%3$s</select>', $args['uid'], $attributes, $options_markup );
                }
                break;
            case 'radio':
            case 'checkbox':
                if( ! empty ( $args['options'] ) && is_array( $args['options'] ) ){
                    $options_markup = '';
                    $i = 0;
                    foreach( $args['options'] as $key => $label ){
                        $i++;
                        $checked = !isset($value) ? false : checked( $value[ array_search( $key, $value, true ) ], $key, false );
                        $options_markup .= sprintf( '<label for="%1$s_%6$s"><input id="%1$s_%6$s" name="%1$s[]" type="%2$s" value="%3$s" %4$s /> %5$s</label><br/>', $args['uid'], $args['type'], $key, $checked, $label, $i );
                    }
                    printf( '<fieldset>%s</fieldset>', $options_markup );
                }
                break;
        }
 
        if(isset($args['helper'])){
            printf( '<span class="helper"> %s</span>', $args['helper'] );
        }
 
        if(isset($args['supplimental'])){
            printf( '<p class="description">%s</p>', $args['supplimental'] );
        }
 
    }
}

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