Code snippets, fixes, implementation details, and things worth remembering. Mostly WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, Elementor, technical SEO, and the occasional server problem.
These are working notes rather than beginner tutorials. They assume you can read PHP and know your way around WordPress.
Display an ACF Field in a Custom Elementor Widget
Sometimes Elementor almost does what you need. You have a field in Advanced Custom Fields, the data is already attached to the post, and all you want is a small widget that prints it…
Screaming Frog: Extract Published and Modified Dates (Meta Tags or Rank Math JSON-LD)
Screaming Frog XPath extractors for published and modified dates from Rank Math, Yoast, or Open Graph markup.
Add Shipping Details to Schema Markup in RankMath Pro
Add WooCommerce shipping details to Rank Math Pro product schema based on a product shipping class.
Prevent Searching For Specific Phrase
A short WordPress pre_get_posts example for intercepting exact search phrases before the search query runs.
Get first item or last item in an array
A PHP example using reset() and end() to identify the first and last values while looping through an array.
Change Date Format for Elementor Date Picker
Change the displayed Elementor date-picker format with a small front-end Flatpickr customization.