Posts by Sarah
What to do with discarded (or “unfed”) sourdough starter
With so many people at home and bread hard to find in stores, a whole lot of people seem to have taken up baking. This is awesome! My friend Jen even live-streamed some bread-making to help folks get started. The second-order effect, though, is that many stores are now out of yeast. One of my…
Read MoreBook love in the time of coronavirus (or how to use your library’s digital resources)
Over the last few years, I’ve introduced loads of people to the wonderful digital resources their local (and not local!) libraries have to offer. Now, since so many people are unexpectedly at home thanks to COVID-19, and since most local libraries are closing their in-person spaces to “flatten the curve,” I figured it’s a great…
Read MoreGetting ready to sew the Tiny Bag
I’ve had this free pattern for a very cute, tiny zippered bag earmarked for a while and I’m sewing it this month! I’ll be adding posts as I go with in-process (and, one hopes, finished!) pictures. I have friends who are sewing it along with me, so I’m using this post as a spot to…
Read MoreSolving phpcs: Referenced sniff “PSR12.Keywords.ShortFormTypeKeywords” does not exist
I’ve been trying to get the WordPress Coding Standards playing nicely with Visual Studio Code (I had it working on my Mac, but I’ve since moved to Elementary OS and everyone knows that configuring things you haven’t looked at in years is the most fun ever). I’d tried it a couple of months ago and…
Read MoreStarting September 16: join me in a two-year Bible-reading plan
I’ve decided to begin a two-year Bible-reading plan, and you’re invited to join me. My invitation is kind of in the form of a FAQ. 😉 Why two years? I’ve done one-year plans before, and while it’s pretty awesome as a bucket-list item, the pace often meant it was a mad dash toward a checkbox…
Read MorePerfect Chewy Brownies
That’s right, these are perfect. Fight me. They’re based on these brownies and also these brownies and a whole lot of brownie taste-offs (fortunately, I have good friends who are willing to sacrifice their very bodies for the cause of brownie perfection). Photos to come if I can ever keep the brownies around long enough.…
Read MoreWhen you mess up, don’t apologize for “any inconvenience”
I can’t log into a web hosting portal right now, so I googled for the host’s status page, found it, and was glad to see the issue is noted and being addressed. What I was not glad to see is the phrase “we apologize for any inconvenience.” This phrase is passive-aggressive and weasely. It’s the…
Read MoreHow to change the “Quick Page/Post Redirect” plugin’s meta box priority
What I searched for “Quick Page/Post Redirect” metabox priority Why I searched for it I’m adding custom meta boxes to one of my Custom Post Types, but the “Quick Page/Post Redirect” plugin’s meta box has high priority and is jamming itself in where it isn’t wanted (it’s messing up my flow, man!). What I learned…
Read MoreDigging into “$(…).tipTip is not a function” error
What I searched for “Uncaught TypeError: $(…).tipTip is not a function” Beaver Builder Why I searched for it When I was trying to load Beaver Builder’s settings page in the WordPress backend, I was getting this error in Chrome’s Javascript Console, thrown by line 58 in /bb-plugin/js/fl-builder-admin-settings.js (the line in question: $( ‘.fl-settings-form .dashicons-editor-help’ ).tipTip();).…
Read MoreTracking down expdbs_migrations
I’m cleaning up a client’s WordPress database and found a very large row in the wp_options table with the option_name “expdbs_migrations_307560ade90b365a15bcb8d6d1aed8fa”. I suspected this was a remnant of a no-longer-installed plugin (they don’t have any plugins that start with “E” at the moment), but wanted to be sure before hacking it out. Googling “expdbs_migrations” found a number…
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