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Sometimes you want to create a custom widget for your WordPress theme or plugin. And sometimes, you might want to include the tiny WYSIWYG editor like the one that is within the Text widget WordPress offers out of the box. Now,...

This article will go through the steps to get Memcached installed on a Centos (7 or 8) server with DirectAdmin. I needed to install Memcached to make use of object caching in WordPress on a VPS. The VPS was hosting one website...

Have you ever run into a situation where you want to be able to dynamically store data along with your Laravel Model, without having to add an (excessive) amount of columns to your database table? I sure have. I think there a...

About two weeks ago, I published an open-source Laravel package on Github called Laravel Simple Media. The package enables you to upload media files, optionally...

Yesterday I was trying to tweak the invoice design for Addrow, a SaaS application I made with Laravel. I have basically two templates for the invoice, one for web display...

Yesterday, I posted a Tweet that included a screenshot of a code snippet. Before I could take the screenshot I needed to toggle some settings in my code editor (VSCode), and after I thought: why not make a simple tool to make that...

There are several ways in which you can determine if a user owns an object in your Laravel application. This post will give you a couple of examples how you could implement this check within your form request validations.

In August last year, I introduced Addrow for the first time. Addrow is an invoicing web application which aims to make invoicing as simple as...

For a recent project, I needed a way for users to bookmark posts. Other then posts, I imagine the application to have other objects in the future too. So, with this in mind, I decided to build a solution which can handle other objects...