Mathieu Hays

I’m using WP Super Cache for most of my page caching needs. All pages on my website are cached on disk so they load faster. In order to avoid caching issues when deploying a new version, I always make sure to empty the cache folder. I do this by excluding all files in the cache […]

I recently moved my development environment from the built-in Apache configuration on my mac to a vagrant setup using ubuntu, apache and php7. It helps me preventing any disruption when doing the occasional Mac OS update (usually breaking my configuration). I use custom domain names at work pointing to my computer. Everything is setup on a firewall so […]

I recently had interest in generating a React-based web app using PHP. To be able to do such an amazing thing you first need to install the PHP extension V8Js. You’ll find below the process I followed to install it on my Mac: First install the engine: brew install v8 Install dependency for the PECL […]

Because I required to be able to dump data without altering the design of a website I came with this snippet that enable me to render php variables to the browser’s console. It basically just support numbers, string, arrays and simple stdClass objects which I think is enough for most use cases. <?php function console_log() […]

Since WordPress 4.0, in WP_Query, we were able to pass an array in ‘orderby‘ to be able to order by multiple column but we weren’t able to pass more than one custom post meta. With the 4.2 release, we are now able to use as many as we want ! With 4.0 we just had […]