Kittsteiner Blog

Category: Development

  • New plugin: product notifications

    I couldn’t find any free plugin that allows me to receive Slack notifications when a new order has been created or updated in WooCommerce. So I created it myself: https://github.com/epiphyt/product-notifications

  • Switched from Transmit to ForkLift

    I just switched from Transmit to ForkLift recently after the latter changed their SSH implementation from libssh2 to OpenSSH, making use of the default SSH configuration of your user.

    This was the main reason to switch for me, as we use a ProxyJump at work and before this implementation change neither one of them was capable of this. However, due to recent changes at work, it’s now mandatory for certain projects (and the plan is to expand it to all of them).

    Aside of that, I immediately noticed that browsing through a remote server is so much faster than before.

    Additionally, it seems that ForkLift has a more active development cycle, already with support for macOS Tahoe.

    The only thing I’m sad about is that there is no favorites importer. Seems to be a manual job, but for me, it’s worth the hassle.

  • Work on Form Block continues

    Time flies … When possible, the last few weeks I worked on the next big thing in Form Block: allowing you to store form submissions in your WordPress backend.

    Backend work is now nearly completed (only the delete function has to be implemented) and then only some additional settings are missing.

    I’m excited. 🎉

    List for form submissions with one submission expanded to show all submitted fields and files

  • Successful vacation

    When having vacation, many people want to travel. I’m different. I want to work on my projects. And so I did the last two weeks. And it was great fun by working on multiple projects to take them further. For me, developing is not just a job, it’s my passion and I also love to do it in my free time.

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  • It’s time …

    It’s time for me to try Polypane. Hope to speed-up developing and improvements regarding accessibility audits.

  • Fragment Caching

    I just played a little bit with fragment caching. First downside: since you cannot filter locate_template, you can’t cache complete templates.

    Aside of that, my proof of concept worked so far, but in the end you need to consider too many edge cases, which already has blown this POC. So I think, I stop this. At least for WordPress.