Welcome to cleody.com

If you use the HTML package from LaravelCollective to generate your Laravel forms, you may encounter a problem, when you use form model binding. It may occur, that your input fields remain empty.

The reason may be, that you’ve copied your creation form to your edit...

By default, the WordPress backend search searches for post titles and the post content. If you have a lot of pages, it can be hard to find the correct page when you want to link pages or insert pages to a menu.

If you want to change that, so that WordPress only searches for the post title (in the b...

The default shell when using macOS is ZSH. If you want to add a directory to the PATH variable, you can create a file named ~/.zshenv:

nano ~/.zshenv

Now, you can use this file to add a directory to the path, in this case, ~/.composer/vendor/bin will be added to the PATH:

export PATH=...

When trying to run npm install after setting up a new laravel project, I got these error message:

sebastian@Sebastians-iMac my-project % npm install

> fsevents@1.2.11 install /Users/sebastian/Development/valet/my-project/node_modules/fsevents
> node-gyp rebuild

No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.C...

By default, Easy Digital Downloads Updater caches the result of the update check for several hours. If you want to force EDD to check for updates again, you can use this SQL statement to delete the cached result:

DELETE FROM `my_wp_db`.`wp_options` WHERE `option_name` = '_site_transient_update_...

There seems to be a bug when using MySQL in combination with the latest macOS release. After some time, MySQL stops working. I discovered the problem mostly when working with WordPress and Laravel Valet.

You may discover the problem when you[ find something similar to “MySQL server has gone away” i...

If you use macOS, you may use the following SQL statement to locate your MySQL logs:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%general_log%';  
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%slow_query_log%';  

The output should be something like:

general_log            ON
general_log_file       /usr/local/mysql/data/localhost.l...

If you want to add some custom CSS to your WordPress backend, you can add this to your functions.php:

function cleody_custom_backend_css() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'backend-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/backend-style.css' );
}

add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'cleody_custom_backen...

If you are using macOS and want to reset PhpStorm to its default settings, you can use these commands (run them from a terminal):

rm -r -f ~/Library/Preferences/PhpStorm20.*
rm -r -f ~/Library/Caches/PhpStorm20.*
rm -r -f ~/Library/Application Support/PhpStorm20*
rm -r -f ~/Library/Logs/PhpStor...

If you want to check the used version of Twig, you can enter this line to one of your template files:

<p>Twig version is {{ constant('Twig_Environment::VERSION') }}</p> 

Another option is to check the file vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Environment.php or *vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php...