MonteLogic

Category: Documenting

  • Documenting: Researching Rebuilding Large Bloated Websites

    New Day: Mon 15 Aug 2022 02:17:38 PM CDT Okay, I often come across huge sites that have been jiggered together with plugins because the people running the site don’t know how to code to create custom solutions. So what often ends up happening is … lots of plugins and lots of complicated logic. Also,…

  • Documenting: Paths to LocalWP assets on Linux Mint

    New Day: Sat 13 Aug 2022 07:01:24 PM CDT I assume this would work in Ubuntu but not for sure. Okay, so ….. I read on their website they have paths to Mac machines listed as, ~/Library/Application Support/Local/blueprints. So my past experience says that I have seen that capitalized Local folder in the root somewhere,…

  • Documenting: Debugging WordPress With Custom Log Files

    New Day: Sat 13 Aug 2022 02:29:10 PM CDT Alright, after trying and failing This is not going to be specific to LocalWP–even though I’m using it for this–because this should work on the same PHP/WordPress installations. After looking around I found this dope talk where the speaker discusses different uses for the console object.…

  • Documenting: Setting Up Xdebug + VS Code for LocalWP on Linux Mint machine

    New Day: Sat 13 Aug 2022 10:35:23 AM CDT I have previously got it to work after editing the launch.json file and change the routing scheme to my LocalWP installation. I am following this YT video. I made a launch.json which worked well. Launch.json {“version”: “0.2.0”,”configurations”: [{“name”: “Listen for Xdebug 3.0 (Local)”,”type”: “php”,”request”: “launch”,”port”: 9003,”xdebugSettings”:…

  • Documenting: Importing Websites into LocalWP with WP CLI

    The process of importing things with LocalWP is the fact that you have to have the .sql file and wp-content folder of a website in the same folder, zip it and then drop it into LocalWP. This technique is summed up perfectly in this forum thread reply. I currently able to use SSH to get…

  • Documenting: Setting Up and using WP CLI on LocalWP

    TL;DR I didn’t have to do much work because LocalWP ships with WP CLI just click ‘Open site shell’ New Day: Thu 11 Aug 2022 11:59:00 AM CDT The WP CLI is offered kind of as an alternative to SSH but I have yet to get really familiar with it. It offers the promise of…

  • Documenting: My Developer Workflow Setup on Linux Mint

    About my workflow: I use vim and I use Linux Mint I mainly do web development as it is my main job but I enjoy C++ development as well. I would consider myself an Advanced WordPress developer. I plan to make it to the expert stage by the end of next year. I personally enjoy…

  • Documenting: Setting up Vdebug on LocalWP

    TL;DR I couldn’t figure it out mainly because Linux, Vim and LocalWP seem to be a combination which isn’t officially supported. Starting off: I mainly got the start of my Vdebug setup from this article. I am currently in the point where Vdebug is working on F10 and F5 press but I have yet to…