Today I learned... (TIL)

This is a public repository of those tiny “aha” moments I have on a weekly basis.

Wordpress 7 Gallery Lightbox Breaks Bootscore-Based Themes

The new gallery lightbox navigation added in WordPress 7 is super cool! However, when a lightbox is opened in WordPress 7, it adds the attribute to all direct children of the element. At UF, we used a Bootscore-based WordPress theme (a boilerplate Bootstrap CSS enabled theme), which wraps the site content in a (see header.php), causing the entire site to go “inert” when the gallery lightbox is opened–not ideal.

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#wordpress#code#javascript#dom#work

Gravity Forms Image Aspect Ratio Validation

Despite giving very specific instructions, sometimes users don’t follow them. By default, Gravity Forms does not offer image aspect ratio validation on a file input field, so I had my n8n WordPress code chat agent generate this. I have not tried using the code, and this was for a specific form, so it would need to be modified and tested before use.

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winget: A Native CLI Package Manager for Windows

Being a Linux-lord, I’m probably late to the party, but WinGet is the commandline utility for Windows (introduced in Windows 10) to install and manage packages, similar to a Linux or Unix environment. This makes Windows vastly more useable for developers. Here are some of the main commands that might be useful when working with . I used this tool today to upgrade my version of Windows PowerToys.

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#microsoft#windows#cli#work

Extract Last Names (Full Name with Suffix)

Some last names in our directory of faculty end with suffixes. This adds a level of complexity to extracting and sorting by last name without a custom field. A custom JavaScript function could be constructed to handle this, provided you know all the possible suffix variations.

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#regex#javascript#code#php#work

Modern Methods of Showing or Hiding HTML Elements with JavaScript

Different options available to show and hide HTML elements using JavaScript in 2025, including my preference.

#html#javascript#code#css

Customizing a code-server Docker Image

The Problem: code-server docker container comes with 0 binaries, so you have to set it up to your specific needs in a Dockerfile to include the binaries and packages you need for development assuming you’re using the built-in terminal and proxied port forwarding, etc. The Solution: Write a Dockerfile.

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#docker#code#dockerfile

Hugo Content Adapters

I read briefly about content adapters for HUGO today. This is an exciting way to pull in data from a remote source in JSON or XML format and cache it on a site build. This could be a handy way of grabbing data from other sources and providing a really easy directory. I am not sure how I would use this just yet, but it could, for instance, replace the video section of LinuxCreative.com.

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