Beutelevision

by Thomas Beutel

Category: Wordpress

WordPress Visual Composer, EventsPlus plugin and a.poplight[href^=#] syntax err

Today I came across a weird bug on a client’s wordpress site that broke Visual Composer. The Javascript console was reporting a a.poplight[href^=#] syntax err which seemed to indicate that popups were not working. Indeed, there was a section of the page with tabs that showed no content under the tabs. After a bit of googling, […]

Updated WordPress, PayPal IPN no longer works

I recently updated a client’s WordPress to 3.9.2. There was a page on that WordPress that served as the PayPal notify_url and it had been working fine up until I updated. The page simply used a shortcode that I created in the functions.php file to process the incoming PayPal parameters. After the update, what I […]

Redirect from within a WordPress admin page

I was trying to perform a redirect to generate a CSV file from within a WordPress admin page using the wp_redirect( ) function, but the problem was that I would always get the dreaded “Cannot modify header information – headers already sent” message. This is because admin plugins are simply hooks that are performed within […]