Today I was tasked with adding functionality to an existing custom post type. The problem was, the CPT was being registered in a plugin which I could not edit (client declined to give WDS write access to the /plugins folder). Continue reading “Filter and modify a Custom Post Type – after it’s been registered”
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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… Continue reading “Filter and clean the Archive Title”
Get a WordPress Category ID
I struggled bus’d 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 get_term_by(); Continue reading “Get a WordPress Category ID”
Remove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+
Did anyone actually ask around before making this “feature” mandatory? Let’s get rid of this crap… Continue reading “Remove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+”
Lock down WP-ADMIN
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 login after a certain amount of attempts, they are blacklisted for a period of time. Continue reading “Lock down WP-ADMIN”