Jacob Graham

April 16th, 2025 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in ContentOracle AI, Laravel, Projects, Web Development, WordPress Development

Building a Powerful Retrieval-Augmented AI Chatbot for WordPress

I’ve been developing ContentOracle AI Chat, a plugin that adds a retrieval-augmented ai chatbot to WordPress websites for the past six months. Today, I’d like to take a look at the main features of my new plugin, and share some lessons learned and problems solved in the process of building a powerful retrieval-augmented chatbot for […]

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February 27th, 2025 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Laravel, PHP, Web Development

How to Upload Media From Laravel to Nextcloud with WebDAV

I am building an Laravel web app to help me generate annotations for images. I will be using these annotated images to train computer vision object detection models. As a part of that app, I need to a way to store images uploaded by users so that I can later go in and add object […]

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July 18th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Laravel, My Development Packages, Stickers on Demand - Building my own dropshipping platform, Web Development

How to Build a Custom Blade Directive with Automated Input Validator-Attribute Matching

Laravel is a powerful framework that offers a whole suite of built-in goodies meant to help enormously speed up application development. Blade, its built-in templating engine, and Eloquent, the ORM it ships with, are two of the most especially useful utilities Laravel brings to the table. As you build apps in Laravel, you will inevitably […]

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February 15th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in Laravel, Projects, Stickers on Demand - Building my own dropshipping platform, Web Development

How to Implement a Shopping Cart for Guest Users

So you want to implement a shopping cart for guest users? If you have ever developed an application that includes a “shopping cart” feature, you have surely been faced with the question: How should I handle shopping carts for users who are not logged in to accounts. This can be a puzzling question. It is […]

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