I love a good flow chart. While I had a cold recently, I went looking through our medicine cabinet at all the different pills and syrups…I was super confused by all the claims on the boxes. I did some research on what the best over-the-counter medicine was for each symptom. So, while laying in bed gettingContinue reading “The Cold Flowchart”
Author Archives: Greg Rickaby
Tech Lead at AmericanEagle.com. Published Author. Photographer.
Modify a Custom Post Type after it’s been registered
Today I was tasked with adding functionality to an existing custom post type. The problem was, the CPT was being registered in a plugin that I could not edit. After some digging, I found there’s a filter for that (found in post.php) that allows you to modify a custom post type after it’s been registered some otherContinue reading “Modify a Custom Post Type after it’s been registered”
Filter and clean the Archive Title
This client wanted to feature their archive titles in a large hero area. The PSD excluded the prefixes like, “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:”, etc…
Get a WordPress Category ID
I rode the struggle bus pretty hard on this one today. I needed to ignore the “featured” category in a loop, and to do so, WP_Query() requires the category ID. Luckily, I found a handy function: get_term_by();
I bought a guitar
It all started in the third grade when I learned to play the trumpet. Throughout school and even shortly after I graduated high school I played that trumpet. Although I wasn’t “the best”, I really enjoyed making music.
Summer Vacation 2015
For our 2015 summer vacation, we reserved a campsite at Harrison Bay State Park near Chattanooga, Tennessee. My folks drove from Green Bay and we drove from Enterprise to “meet in the middle”. I wanted to record each day in the event that we wanted to “relive” the fun.
Remove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+
Did anyone actually ask around before making this “feature” mandatory? Let’s get rid of this…
I mean’t no offense, ma’am
Today I learned that people take offense to being called “ma’am”. Like, serious offense.
7 steps for gainful, long-lasting employment
Over the years I’ve learned some things “the hard way” – and here are my steps for gainful, long-lasting employment.
Nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act
I have Individual Blue from Blue Cross Blue Shield. It’s a health insurance plan for the self-employed and is a no-frills, high deductible, catastrophic, “oh fuck I just lost my left leg” kind of thing.
Lock down the WordPress Dashboard
Because of the recent increase in attacks on WordPress, we were recently chatting about locking down /wp-admin and wp-login.php. We discussed the Limit Login Attempts plugin, which works really well. If a user fails to log in after a certain amount of attempts, they are blacklisted for a period of time.
Genesis Theme with Sass & Grunt
As Sass and Grunt become more and more popular, the demand for such tools while customizing themes increases. This is true with the Genesis Theme as well.
Add Google Fonts to WordPress
When using Google Fonts with WordPress, you should NOT use @import, nor just place the HTML in the header. Instead use a function and enqueue them.
Hello Chloe Grace
It happened so fast. One minute we’re watching contractions on the monitor, the next we’re prepping for a c-section. In just 40 weeks and 31 minutes, Tara and I went from expecting to holding our precious little girl.
Create a custom RSS feed for WordPress
Creating a custom RSS feed is pretty easy. I’ll show you have to do it in three steps. Here’s a pro-tip: browsers heavily cache RSS feeds. While developing, try using Incognito Mode.