Dec 2, 2021Member-onlyHow to use Monolog with a custom WordPress plugin | LAMPStack NinjaMonolog is a PHP library that’s widely used for logging. We develop a lot of custom plugins at Webinology, and a while back we decided that we wanted to use Monolog in our WordPress Plugin Boilerplate-based plugins. WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is class-centric and we wanted to devise a way to…WordPress5 min readWordPress5 min read
Nov 5, 2021How to Handle Plugin Dependency in WordPressHave you ever written plugin code in WordPress that was dependent on another plugin to run? If your code tries to execute before the plugin you require has loaded, obviously, it won’t work. There are plugins available to modify the load order of plugins, but that really isn’t necessary. …WordPress3 min readWordPress3 min read
Jun 10, 2021Member-onlyMaking good software isn’t easy (or quick)I spent a large swath of my IT career with one organization. When I joined them, it was as a programmer, predominantly using COBOL and IBM CICS to provide instructions for mainframes that were the size of a ’67 VW Bus. Over time, this organization decided that we would pull…Development4 min readDevelopment4 min read
