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Organizing shortcodes. How to display all of them and their attributes?

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1. My shortcodes I’ve developed multiple shortcodes for my own theme, I’m loading them in functions.php like this require_once (MY_URL . ‘/bartag_shortcode.php’). Here’s an exemplary bartag shortcode from WordPress Codex: function bartag_func( $atts ) { extract( shortcode_atts( array( 'foo' => 'something', 'bar' => 'something else', ), $atts ) ); return "foo = {$foo}"; } add_shortcode( … Read more

How to define WP_DEBUG as true outside of wp-config.php?

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I am trying to create a debugging mode in one of my plugins so users can easily enable WP_DEBUG on their own, and hopefully report back to us with helpful error messages. Right now we ask them to modify their wp-config.php, but that’s beyond some users’ capabilities. I was hoping to just add define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );in our plugin if the user has checked that option, but it appears you can only enable WP_DEBUG from the wp-config.php file.

Are WordPress Heartbeat API ‘beats’ staggered or do they occur simultaneously for all users?

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The WordPress Heartbeat API uses admin-ajax.php to run AJAX calls. If User X leaves their browser open, many calls will be made to the server, with each call happening when there is a ‘beat’. Now if User Y leaves their browser open, many more calls will be made to the server, with each of these calls happening when there is a ‘beat’. It’s possible a large website will also have User A, User B and User C all do the same.