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Validation and Sanitization in the WordPress Settings API

June 3, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

This post is part of a series on Sanitization with the WordPress Settings API. Here is Part 5.

Assuming that you’ve been following along with the majority of the posts in this series, then you know that we’ve been looking at ways to handle input sanitization and serialization in the WordPress Settings API from an object-oriented perspective.

As of now, we’ve got all of the necessary pieces for doing so, but we’ve not actually tied them all together. So in this post, I’m going to aim to do that in one of the many different ways this can be done.

I’ll talk about how to do it using the code we’ve written as well as some more advanced improvements that can be made were you to take this a few steps further.

What’s Up With Comment Images For WordPress?

June 2, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Every now and then I’ll get an email or a tweet that asks me something about Comment Images – a plugin for WordPress that initially wrote sometime ago. The plugin is active on 6,000+ installs and has 4.7/5 rating so I’m generally happy with the reception of the plugin.

Over time, however, I’ve become busier and busier with Pressware. I’ve talked about this in a number of different posts (such as those around the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate and Mayer) and I probably need to talk more about what I’m doing at Pressware that’s beginning to take more and more of my time, but that’s content for another post on another day.

I responded that I no longer maintained the plugin, but also realized that I’ve yet to actually take the time to explain what’s happened with it.

Validating Input via the WordPress Settings API

June 1, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

This post is part of a series on Sanitization with the WordPress Settings API. Here is Part 4.

Up to this point, everything we’ve talked about regarding the WordPress Settings API and saving data to the database has been based around two ideas:

We need to sanitize the input
We haven’t been concerned with any particular fields being required

At this point though, we’re ready to start talking about how to tackle this particular issue. Since we’re already familiar with how to sanitize the data, we’re going to build off of the code that we already have.

An Example Settings Page

That is, we’re going to look at how to validate the following fields:

Address 1
City
Postal Code

Furthermore, we’re going to see how to tackle this from an object-oriented approach, we’re going to look at what’s needed in order to add an error message if the required input is invalid, and we’re also going to look at how to prevent saving information to the database if it’s empty or invalid.

The Complexity of WordPress Solutions

May 29, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, I was talking with a friend of mine about WordPress and some of the annual revenue reports that have come out over the past few months (which tends to be the normal around the end of the year and on into the first quarter for our industry).

Though he’s no longer working in this particular economy, he mentioned something that I thought was interesting:

the work I’m working on right now is far more exciting and challenging BUT the opportunity to make stupid simple money is pretty large in the WP world

Before I go any further, I want to be clear that I am taking this quote out of context so it’s probably not presenting him in the best light. That isn’t my intent at all.

In fact, I actually think he makes a compelling point that I’ll talk about momentarily, but I also think that the problems that we opt to solve in and/or with WordPress are as challenging as we accept and as we allow them to be.

Mayer For WordPress By Reaktiv Studios

May 28, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the past few years of working within the WordPress space, I’ve had a chance to meet a lot of really great people and teams, and I’ve had the chance to work on a lot of different types of projects. Some of these include commercial themes, commercial plugins, free themes, free plugins, custom web applications, and so on and so forth.

It’s a great time to be a developer in the WordPress economy, isn’t it?

One of the things that comes with running your own business is trying to figure out what you’re best at doing and what you’re fair at doing so you can not only streamline your work, but so you can also make sure you’re maximizing the amount of time you’re spending working on things that you enjoy the most.

So how are these related?

Tom McFarlin