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. http://wpsites.net/web-design/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…