Författare: Johan
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When CAPTCHAs Go on Strike: How Contact Form 7 and Caching Became Best Friends
Ever feel like your WordPress website is playing a cruel joke on you? You’ve painstakingly set up a contact form, armed it with a CAPTCHA to fend off the robot overlords, and then… crickets. Or worse, angry emails from users saying the CAPTCHA is broken. Yeah, I’ve been there. It’s enough to make you want…
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How to get Google My Business API up and running with a Service Account in Google Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide
Connecting a service account in Google Cloud with Google My Business might sound like trying to teach a cat to play the piano. But don’t worry, I got a step-by-step guide for you that makes it as easy as microwaving a cup of coffee (please don’t do that). So, let’s dive into this adventure together!…
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Delete orphan postmeta rows in WordPress
Running a WordPress site for a long time probably means you’ve tried out lots of different plugins handling your data. This usually means you have a lot orphans in your database. So very sad. Of course you want an orphan free database! But you can easily clean up your database by running a few SQL…
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Fix cURL request being really slow locally with Valet
I’m using Valet for running all my local WordPress development installations, which has worked perfectly until updating Valet to PHP 7.4 after the summer vacations. Suddenly all my outgoing cURL requests (through wp_remote_post) was running really slow, always above 5 seconds which was really frustrating to work with. I found out that cURL has problems…
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How to Switch Option and Command Keys on a Varmilo Keyboard for Mac
Are you experiencing confusion with your Varmilo keyboard for Mac because the command and option keys are switched? Here’s a guide on how to solve it. I recently bought a Varmilo keyboard for my MacBook, a VA109Mac to be specific, but I was a bit confused when it was delivered with command and option key…
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Advent of Code meetup at Learning Well
I went to the Advent of Code meetup at Learning Well’s offices in Nyköping. The meetup was part of the Nyköping Developers meetup group, who meets biweekly to geek and talk developing topics. It’s a really great way to get away from the current projects for a few hours. Advent of Code is a yearly…
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Website for Svalorna Indien Bangladesh
I have helped Svalorna Indien Bangladesh with a new website. The site is very modern with advanced content modules and it has an advanced donation functionality. Svalorna will also be selling products on the site with WooCommerce. It’s not a complex solution, but works really well for what they need. Donation solution I found some…
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Get WordPress posts from all Polylang languages in your blog and post archives
As usual – clients have different wishes and requests. Sometimes they’re reasonable, and sometimes they’re not. This request was not unreasonable. In a country like Sweden, and especially in Stockholm, where many corporations and companies speak english – there are english-only speaking people. Of course you want your Swedish speaking friends to not miss all…
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The Predator
Shane Black är verkligen sjukt bra på att skriva knasiga karaktärer med fantastisk dialog. Glimten i ögat krävs i en film som The Predator, där temat är väldigt överdrivet, och det har de fått till. De har siktat på att göra en en så kallad ”dum actionfilm” med 80-talskänsla, alltså inte något djupare än en…
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Tre dagars vattenfasta
Visst har det varit jobbigt att vara hungrig, men jobbigast har nog varit avsaknaden av underhållningen att äta. Min bror berättade att han vattenfastade och kände sig mycket bättre i kroppen efteråt, vilket gjorde mig nyfiken på att testa. Dag 1 Första dagen kände jag framförallt av hungern och kurrande mage. Avsaknaden av att underhållas…