Jacob Graham

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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April 5th, 2024 | by Jacob Graham | Posted in WordPress Development

How to Make a WordPress Block that Displays Post Meta

One of the unique and interesting challenges that arises when developing new block types for WordPress sites is getting access to post-specific data from the database in your block. Access to this data is needed both on the user-facing frontend, where visitors will see your posts, and on the editor backend, where post authors write […]

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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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