Nicola Mustone

Happiness Lead @ Automattic



  • Adding the Breadcrumbs to Storefront Without WooCommerce

    If you, like me, are using Storefront without using WooCommerce, then you probably noticed that the breadcrumbs are not included by default.

    This is because Storefront uses WooCommerce functions to print the breadcrumbs, before the content. But there’s another way to have that, with the plugin Yoast SEO.

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  • Get the Status of a Twitch Stream

    I worked on a site for a friend some time ago and she is a streamer on Twitch. What I wanted to add is a widget in the header that shows her Twitch stream status, so when she is live, if someone goes to the site, they can see that, and eventually check her live Twitch stream.

    Knowing if someone is live via the API that Twitch provides is very easy. Let’s check how I did that.

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  • How to Create a Custom Bulk Action

    WordPress 4.7 introduced a way to create your own custom bulk actions for your post types.

    Before that, there were plugins to do it, but now that it’s in the core, it’s way easier to add a new bulk action, potentially you only need three functions!

    Let’s see an example together about how to add a Move to Drafts bulk action, I know that is already possible if you bulk edit posts, but it involves many clicks, while with a bulk action is only a couple clicks!

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  • Pluck Fields Out Of an Object or Array

    Some days ago I was working on a project and I needed to get out of an object some data, but not all of them. Specifically, I had many terms, and I needed to get only the key name from that object.

    What I would have done, is looping though all the items and build an array from that with their names. But I learned about a better way!

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  • Scheduled Events and WordPress Cron Jobs

    When I say scheduled events, I don’t mean the awesome party that you may want to sell on your site, no. The scheduled events I’m talking about are actually events that occur in WordPress.

    An example would be a scheduled sale on WooCommerce, or a scheduled post in your blog that you want to publish in the future.

    You can create such events also by yourself, for your theme or your plugin. Like I said before, WooCommerce uses scheduled events for sales, that’s a custom one. I used them to sync two different blogs with a plugin.

    If you want to learn how to use scheduled events in WordPress, keep reading!

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About The Author

Hi, I’m Nico! Support Lead at Automattic, championing WordPress.com & WooCommerce. Off-duty, I’m at Elemental Beacon, leading epic D&D adventures. Let’s connect, whether it’s about WordPress or a quest!