PHP Archives - David Stockdale's Scrapcode

Lazy Loading Broke wp-embedded-content

After updating Jetpack my embedded posts no longer displayed their featured images due to Jetpack’s Lazy Image Loading leaving them unloaded.

Posted on 24/05/2022

Here’s a quick and ugly shortcode function that can be made into a text based Choose Your Own Adventure game, easy to embed anywhere in your website!

Posted on 29/04/2022

How to increase the depth of menus in an Understrap 1.1.0 (Bootstrap 5) child theme by displaying all sub menus when the dropdown is expanded.

Posted on 08/02/2022

How to get the sum of all numbers in a String when that String is just an ordinary sentence containing some numbers.

Posted on 01/02/2022

A simple beginners guide on how to install PHP on a Windows 10 computer. Laying out step by step how to do it with no knowledge required.

Posted on 15/11/2021

PHP code which uses the GitHub API to return five repositories recently starred by the user and their 5 most starred repositories.

Posted on 15/11/2021

How to style embeds to look good on both dark mode and light mode styling to support the user toggling between styles using WP Dark Mode.

Posted on 14/09/2021

How to create a simple shortcode which creates scroll-able lists of pages with a specified parent page (with horizontal and vertical options).

Posted on 07/09/2021

A much better way to position text over (or on top of) an image using relative and absolute position and styling based on screen size.

Posted on 26/08/2021

How to embed twitch and twitch chat with a simple to use shortcode which only becomes visible when the stream is live.

Posted on 12/08/2021