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Sean Langlands seanlanglands

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Husband / Dad + Creative designer and ambitious web developer currently working with a distributed team at @WordPressVIP and @Automattic

seanlanglands / bulk-assign-terms.php

Created December 9, 2025 23:11

	<?php
	/**
	* Plugin Name: CLI: Bulk Assign Term by IDs
	* Description: WP-CLI command to bulk-assign a taxonomy term to explicit post IDs.
	*/

	if ( ( defined( 'WP_CLI' ) && WP_CLI ) && class_exists( 'WPCOM_VIP_CLI_Command' ) ) {
	/**
	* Bulk-assign a taxonomy term to a comma-separated list of post IDs.
	*

seanlanglands / add-es-raw-query-qm.php

Created December 4, 2025 23:11

	<?php
	add_action(
	'plugins_loaded', function () {
	class QM_Output_RAW_EP_Query_Log extends QM_Output_Raw {

	/**
	* Collector instance.
	*
	* @var QM_Collector_HTTP Collector.
	*/

seanlanglands / fix-twitter-oembeds.php

Created December 6, 2024 21:46

Fix failed X/Twitter embeds by rendering them client-side when oembed has failed.

	<?php
	add_filter( 'the_content', 'fix_failed_twitter_embeds', 11 );

	/**
	* Fix failed X/Twitter embeds by rendering them client-side when oEmbed has failed.
	*
	* Does not prevent WordPress core's oEmbed from being attempted, which can result in
	* a server-side 404 request to Twitter's API.
	*
	* @param string $content The post content.

seanlanglands / msm-sitemap-private-blog-render.php

Created October 18, 2024 20:12

	<?php
	/**
	* Enable msm-sitemap plugin sitemap rendering on non-production environments
	* by overriding blog_public to 1 on the pre_option hook.
	*
	* @param mixed $pre_option Value of an existing option.
	*
	* @return mixed
	*/
	function vip_enable_non_prod_sitemap_rendering( $pre_option ) {

seanlanglands / yoast-sitemap-mitigations.php

Last active July 2, 2025 12:38

Yoast SEO sitemap performance mitigations

	<?php
	// Yoast sitemap performance improvements.

	/**
	* Objects are cached for 24 hours and changes will be applied upon next sitemap update.
	*/
	add_filter( 'wpseo_enable_xml_sitemap_transient_caching', '__return_true' );

	add_action( 'parse_request', 'filter_yoast_sitemap_cache_maxage' );
	add_action( 'parse_request', 'block_query_string_sitemap_requests' );

seanlanglands / custom-wp-sitemap-routes.php

Last active August 29, 2023 02:24

Custom wp-sitemap routes and serve via siteurl value

	<?php
	// Disable sitemap stylesheets if needed.
	add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_stylesheet_url', '__return_false' );
	add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_stylesheet_index_url', '__return_false');

	add_action( 'init', 'register_custom_sitemap_rewrites', 20 );

	/**
	* Register custom `^sitemap/*` rewrite rules for sitemap routes.
	*

seanlanglands / check-file-visibility-by-metadata.php

Created July 20, 2023 05:15

Determine whether the file is private or public based on post meta value

	<?php
	add_filter( 'vip_files_acl_file_visibility', 'check_file_visibility_by_metadata', 11, 2 );

	/**
	* Given a path determine whether the file is private or public based on the
	* value of the attachment's `_custom_restriction_meta` post meta.
	*
	* @param string $file_visibility one of Automattic\VIP\Files\Acl\(FILE_IS_PUBLIC \| FILE_IS_PRIVATE_AND_ALLOWED \| FILE_IS_PRIVATE_AND_DENIED).
	* @param string $file_path path to file to be checked for visibility.
	*

seanlanglands / class-cli-import-csv.php

Last active April 6, 2023 19:01

Custom WP-CLI command to import a CSV file into a post type

	<?php
	/**
	* ExamplePackage\CLI_Import_CSV Class.
	*
	* @package ExamplePackage
	*/

	namespace ExamplePackage;

	if ( ! defined( '\WP_CLI' ) ) {

seanlanglands / set-post_tag-taxonomy-non-public.php

Last active March 15, 2023 22:46

	<?php
	/**
	* Overwrite default post_tag taxonomy to be non-public.
	*
	* @see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_taxonomy/
	*
	* @return void
	*/
	function vip_modify_post_tag_taxonomy() {
	$post_tag_args = get_taxonomy( 'post_tag' );

seanlanglands / nginx-template

Created September 6, 2022 05:10

	#{"rootDirectory":"public","phpVersion":"8.0"}
	server {
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
	listen 443 ssl http2;
	listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
	{{ssl_certificate_key}}
	{{ssl_certificate}}
	{{server_name}}
	{{root}}