So, I was working on a site the other day, and for some reason I could not for the life of me get the comments working. I tried searching online for a few hours with no success. Nothing showed up at all no matter what I did. I finally deleted my comments.php file and then Read More…
It turns out that WordPress has a set of built in dashicons that you can use in the backend dashboard, say for custom post types, or also on the frontend. It’s pretty cool. Check it out. Adding Dashicons in WordPress http://melchoyce.github.io/dashicons/
This website has some super awesome wp generator tools. http://generatewp.com/ I used it to create a custom post type in a few minutes.
You can use this text to make a short page title. <?php $thetitle = get_the_title(); /* or you can use $post->post_title; */ $getlength = strlen($thetitle); $thelength = 25; echo substr($thetitle, 0, $thelength); if ($getlength > $thelength) echo “…”; ?> Or you can do add this to your functions.php file. function max_title_length($title){ $max = 20; return substr( Read More…
It turns out that you can’t actually use the <!–more–> tag in pages. Instead, you can use the <!–nextpage–> if you make sure to use the <?php wp_link_pages(); ?> php snippet. Take a look at the documentation to modify it. http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages
This is a really simple lightweight accordion. https://medium.com/web-design-tutorials/29b39ac24b38
The tutorial on the site has an easy and lite tutorial on jQuery Tabs. No Plugin required. http://inspirationalpixels.com/tutorials/creating-tabs-with-html-css-and-jquery
This article is exactly what you need to exclude a category from the blog page. You just paste in the snippet into your functions.php file and viola. http://chriswiegman.com/2013/05/excluding-a-category-from-your-wordpress-homepage/ // Exclude category from homepage function my_exclude_category( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-230’ ); } return $query; } add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, Read More…
This is a jQuery snippet that will populate an input field with the html from a radio button label ///////////////////////////////////////////// // Get the html from the selected Event on the radio button and put it in the hidden field so we can access it in the pdf for the ticket ///////////////////////////////////////////// $(‘#input_1_1’).click(function(){ var selectedEvent Read More…
You can add or get rid of User profile fields in the backend by using the code on this page. http://davidwalsh.name/add-profile-fields I also created a profile page to keep track of progress for each user that is logged in using Gravity Forms. These are the steps I used: Create a Form that has checkboxes. Install Read More…