Wordpress
I often forget how easy it is to contribute to WordPress software development (even without writing a lick of code). A week ago, I was trying out the new Gutenberg plugin on a site, and I noticed a little thing that bugged me. So, without writing any code, I made an annotated screengrab of what…
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I will be speaking at Prestige Conference on Saturday – can’t wait! My topic is called, “WordPress Moneyball”.
Read MoreThe way WordPress handles Youtube embeds is awesome – just copy-and-paste the link into the editor. Unfortunately, when echoing custom fields in a theme, it isn’t that easy. Thanks to Convoy for this fix: _e( wp_oembed_get( get_field( ‘youtube_link’ ) ) ); NOTE: My example, uses Advanced Custom Fields’ “get_field” function. You could replace get_field( ‘youtube_link’…
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Tonight I needed to add a column for a custom taxonomy to my “all posts” view of a custom post type. It turns out that WordPress 3.5 made this easy with the show_admin_column parameter for taxonomies. In my case, I was using Custom Post Type UI to generate the post types and taxonomies, so I…
Read MoreKevin Hendricks interviewed me for his iThemes.com series about WordPress user groups. Learn how we started the group, why we started it, and why we keep it going! http://ithemes.com/2013/07/02/how-to-run-a-wordpress-meetup-part-12-toby-cryns-the-minneapolis-st-paul-wordpress-user-group/
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