There is, in fact, a way to do it without messing with the theme, let’s say your WordPress is on public_html/your_site, now you want to create an HTML page that is on your_site.com/mypage, so instead of creating a page or post called mypage on your WordPress dashboard you are going to create a mypage.html and … Read more
Hi @Jonathan Sampson: There are several plugins to make Custom Post Types easier and some allow you to define Custom Fields too, in no particular order: WP Easy Post Types GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Custom Post Type UI Simple Fields As I mentioned above I’ve been working on one that does not provide … Read more
01 Database Security 01.01 change your database prefix during install or after install this is security by obscurity but helps with automated scripts that could run over all databases to inject bad code in your content like scripts, iframes or display: bits 01.02 install a database backup plugin to automate the backup e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ Read … Read more
Available actions: pre_post_update – Runs just before a post or page is updated. publish_post – Runs when a post is published, or if it is edited and its status is “published”. save_post – Runs whenever a post or page is created or updated, which could be from an import, post/page edit form, xmlrpc, or post … Read more
After digging around, I ended up with using upload_dir filter. Here is what I tried in functions.php to change uploads to media. Hope it can help someone too 🙂 add_filter(‘upload_dir’, function($uploads) { $custom = []; foreach ($uploads as $key => $value) { if ( false !== strpos($value, ‘/app/uploads’) ) { $custom[$key] = str_replace(‘/app/uploads’, ‘/app/media’, $value); … Read more
You can simply use the same filter with a lower or higher priority parameter to make the appropriate changes to the $actions array. That way you may create a small custom plugin (or modify the theme’s functions.php file), without having to modify the existing plugin directly. For example: if you want your custom code to … Read more
The box which allows slug edition under the post title is actually tied to the slug metabox. It needs it to work. So, removing the metabox will break it. The only solution, I think, would be to use javascript or css to hide it. Something like this will work: function hide_slug_box() { global $post; global … Read more
Found it while digging around in multisite network admin settings: there is a setting called “Upload file types” (in the database it’s the row with meta_key = “upload_filetypes” in the wp_sitemeta table) which contains a list of allowed filetypes. Adding “ppt” to the list allows them to be uploaded.
I found a plugin that does this for me: Additional image sizes (zui) When you delete an image size that size will not be created for all NEW images you upload. However, images created for deleted sizes still exist on the server as well as the image attachment metadata for those sizes. This feature will … Read more
There is a very important programming principle: DRY – Don’t repeat yourself. Whenever you realize you are repeating almost the same job try to write an abstraction. For your pad* shortcodes this means: function get_padding( $atts ) { $args = shortcode_atts( array( ‘num’ => 10 ), $atts ); return str_repeat( ‘ ‘, (int) $args[‘num’] ); … Read more