Posts Tagged ‘snippets’
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 which I could not edit. After some digging, I found there’s a filter for that (found in post.php) which allows you to modify a custom post type, after it’s been registered some other…
Read MoreFilter 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…
Read MoreGet 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();
Read MoreRemove Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+
Did anyone actually ask around before making this “feature” mandatory? Let’s get rid of this crap…
Read MoreLock 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 login after a certain amount of attempts, they are blacklisted for a period of time.
Read MoreCreate a ‘Must Use’ Plugin for WordPress
Some of you are like me: “frequent theme changer guy”. Here’s a trick I’ve learned to keep from having to re-write code every time I get bored with a theme: I use the “Must Use” Plugin.
Read Morei18n vs L10n
i18n stands for “internationalization” L10n stands for “localization” Both are numeronyms, or “number based words”. The numbers come from the number of characters in between the “i” and the “n”. You can read all about their storied history here and here. How i18n (internationalization) works in WordPress By wrapping some text in a nifty PHP…
Read MoreGenesis Code Snippets
Here is my collection of code snippets I use build child themes in Genesis.
Read MoreRemove WooCommerce Styles and Scripts
WooCommerce is absolutely the most brilliant and easy-to-use shopping cart for WordPress – but it’s heavy! I’ll show you how to remove the cruft!
Read MoreHow To: Install LAMP on Ubuntu
My brother called to talk about moving his company’s web development and testing environment in-house. They had already downloaded Ubuntu, but didn’t know how to get Apache, MySQL, or PHP installed. I sent him one command and 5 minutes later, they had a fully functional LAMP stack running.
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