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We had a client using the free version of Envira Gallery who wanted a custom gallery display. Our template would display galleries based upon a category and allow for a cover photo as well. To accomplish this, we had added some Advanced Custom Fields to display on the Envira Gallery add or edit post screen. It worked great. Then we upgraded to a paid version of Envira to get the Instagram addon. At that point our ACF metabox disappeared. It just stopped showing. It turns out the Envira Gallery has a function to ‘help you’ remove unwanted metaboxes. Unfortunately,...

There is a plugin that will retrieve remote images in the post content and save it in the media library. It is ancient but I tested on 5.5.1 so it is hanging in there 🙂 Archive Remote Images Unfortunately, you have to open and save each post for it to work. So I created a little plugin that will add a field to the bulk edit interface and trigger the plugin to work on multiple posts. The one catch is you have to hack the ARI plugin in one teeny place so it will accept a $_REQUEST element rather...

The following function reads a large Updraft backup file and extracts a portion to another file. In this way, you can pull out the MYSQL insert statements for the table you want. And in the process, create a smaller file you can actually open.  You can set Updraft to create smaller backups. But if you get stuck with one of these monster files, this is how you can parse out what you need. In this case, I put the file in the same directory as the code and new file. You may have to change the path to the...

Would you like to limit the number of wordpress heartbeat ticks without a plugin? Put this snippet in your functions.php file (or in a custom plugin)....