Steven Henty

Local Lightning: MySQL v5.7 not returning errors

Steven Henty — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 09:28:03 +0000

Problem MySQL v5.7 on Local Lightning doesn’t return helpful error messages. e.g. “Unknown error 1054” instead of “ERROR: Unknown column ‘foo’ in ‘field list‘”. In the case of a typo in a keyword e.g. “sssselect foo from wp_options” no errors are returned at all. From the Local Lightning log:Can’t find error-message file ‘/usr/local/mysql/share/errmsg.sys’. Check error-message […]

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Code Quality in Gravity Forms

Steven Henty — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:57:46 +0000

tl;dr: Along with a continued focus on security, stability and scalability, 2019 will bring a more proactive approach to accessibility as integral to code quality with help from Rian Rietveld. Now 2018 is coming to a close, I’d like to share some of my thoughts on the quality of the code in Gravity Forms over the […]

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Acceptance Testing WordPress Plugins

Steven Henty — Wed, 31 May 2017 09:43:08 +0000

In my previous post on acceptance testing, I demonstrated how I’ve been using Codeception to build a bank of acceptance tests for Gravity Flow to check for regression issues and ensure reliability between every release. In this second post, I make the case for a deeper approach to acceptance testing and demonstrate how to create […]

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Acceptance Testing: Gravity Flow

Steven Henty — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 18:18:02 +0000

Update 1 June 2017: Read my second post on acceptance testing for an easier way to set up the test environment – Acceptance Testing WordPress plugins — As more and more organisations depend on Gravity Flow for business workflow automation the responsibility of ensuring reliability between releases is becoming increasingly important. One of the ways of ensuring that […]

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Gravity Forms CLI Tutorial

Steven Henty — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:31:26 +0000

Update 27 February 2020: Added command to delete all entries for a form (see Advanced usage) Update 6 June 2016: added contribution section. ——– The Gravity Forms CLI Add-On was released last week. What is it? What can it do? And how on earth do you use it? Introduction Requirements Installation Install Gravity Forms and Add-Ons Verifying […]

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Gravity Flow released

Steven Henty — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:46:57 +0000

So, about 12 months after beginning this journey, Gravity Flow is finally available for purchase. (use the discount code LAUNCH10PERCENT for an early bird discount) Around 200 beta testers have been using it. I’d estimate around 30 of those for real-world processes, and about 400 people have tried the online demo. About 100 of the 200 beta […]

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Gravity Flow – Open Beta

Steven Henty — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:40:58 +0000

Back in September 2014 I wrote a Gravity Forms tutorial demonstrating how to implement a simple approval system for WordPress. The post generated a lot of interest and helped a lot of people roll their own. It quickly became clear that people were starting to use my sample code without modification in their organisation […]

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The Gravity Forms API

Steven Henty — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:09:02 +0000

This is the third tutorial in a series of post for developers on the Gravity Forms API/developer platform. You can find the first two here: 1. An introduction to the Gravity Forms developer platform 2. Gravity Forms API case study: Approvals Contents Introduction Security WordPress Cookie Authentication External clients: signature authentication Authorisation Routing Sample Code Create a […]

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Load Gravity Forms via AJAX

Steven Henty — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:34:15 +0000

UPDATE 22 May 2021: The plugin has been updated to work with Gravity Forms 2.5.2.4 If you read my post last week, which demonstrates how to display Gravity Forms in WordPress admin pages, it may have got you thinking about all the possibilities it opens up. Perhaps you realised that it’s also possible to load […]

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Add Gravity Forms to the WordPress Dashboard

Steven Henty — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:12:47 +0000

With the release of Gravity Forms 1.9 it’s now possible to display forms anywhere in WordPress admin. Here’s an example of how to add a Gravity Form to the dashboard like this: Here’s the code:

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