Filter Youtube oembeds

I’m not sure how all of this code works exactly, but I was able to use it to remove the controls and title info by adding &showinfo=0&controls=0 to the youtube embeds on a website. /** * Add Custom Parameters to YouTube Embeds */ function namespace_oembed_youtube_no_title( $html, $url, $args ) { // Only run this for Read More…

Change Posts default Name and Icon

This is how to change the default ‘posts’ to ‘videos’ and swap out the dashicon for the video icon <?php //Rename “Posts” to “Videos” add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘bigmoney_change_post_menu_label’ ); add_action( ‘init’, ‘bigmoney_change_post_object_label’ ); function bigmoney_change_post_menu_label() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = ‘Videos’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][5][0] = ‘Videos’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][10][0] = ‘Add Videos’; $submenu[‘edit.php’][16][0] = ‘Video Tags’; echo ”; Read More…

Short Page Title

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…

Read More tag in Pages

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  

Exclude Category from Blog Homepage

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…

Pre populate Hidden input in Gravity Forms

This is the code I used to prepopulate a hidden field in Gravity Forms so that i could send users to different pages depending on what was in the field. /* CHECK FOR EVENTS and populate HIDDEN FIELD pre submission*/add_filter( “gform_pre_submission_23”, “check_for_events”, 9 );function check_for_events( $form ){ $ip=$_SERVER[“REMOTE_ADDR”]; //print_r($ip); exit(); $event_check = geoCheckIP($ip); //print_r($event_check[‘town’]. ‘, Read More…

Category Dropdown

WordPress has a built-in display categories widget that can show as a list or a dropdown. However, it only shows categories with posts attached to them. If you want to show all categories in a dropdown use this code. <form action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/” method=”get”> <?php $select = wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_option_none=Select State&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=0&selected=0&hide_empty=0’); $select = preg_replace(“#<select([^>]*)>#”, “<select$1 onchange=’return this.form.submit()’>”, Read More…