Plugins are a great way to add additional functionality to your WordPress (WP) site. They allow you to extend the core WP functionality without needing much development knowledge. For example, if you want to add a contact form to your site, this functionality is not in WP by default. To achieve this you can enable a […]
There are times in WordPress when you need a custom field, but may not want to go through setting up a full custom meta box. Sometimes all you need is a simple checkbox that appears in the publish box. In this how-to, I’ll show you how to add a custom meta checkbox field to the […]
In this blog post I’m going to run through how to add a custom Gravity Forms field that will add multiple hidden fields. This field would easily allow you to add multiple fields that are the same across different forms, saving you time when creating new forms. In my instance, I was hooking DemandBase into […]
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. If you’ve done any modern PHP development in the last few years, you’ve probably used it. This post is going to cover why you should use a dependency manager and how to get started integrating Composer with your WordPress site.
When you’re building a WordPress site some things belong in themes and some in plugins. Usually anything having to do with display is in the theme and anything that might be used elsewhere should be in a plugin. As an example: take a custom post type and a custom meta box. Those are things that your end user will probably want to keep around after a theme change. They both belong in a plugin. Because you’re a really good WordPress dev, you don’t use magic strings and instead built a nice set of wrapper methods to fetch those custom meta values for your post type. Maybe as a nice object that someone can pass a post ID into and use.
The past few weeks have been a little interesting for us data analyst SEO types. Remember that story about Yahoo going Secure Search on March 31, 2014? Well, get ready because it’s almost here, and we are starting to see the effects.
At the heart of all the various nicely-formatted list tables in the WordPress admin area is a PHP class called WP_List_Table. Reading the source of WP_List_Table and its various children can be enlightening and may reveal the secrets of the universe – well, probably not the secrets thing. This tutorial will show you how to […]
A session at SES San Francisco last week got me thinking about about site migrations. They’re very easy to screw up, and here’s a few ways you can do it. 1. Forget the Robots.txt File In a world of distributed computing and automation, many development and IT departments use automated scripts to deploy code to […]
WordPress comes with a set of access controls that allow you to give certain roles capabilities. Those roles, in turn, get assigned to users. This is why contributors can write and edit their own posts, but administrators can edit and work with everyone’s posts in the WordPress admin. Contributor and Administrator are both roles with […]
The WordPress settings api is a collection of functions that allows you to extend existing admin pages with your own fields or create new pages. In this tutorial, we’ll cover how to do both. Overview The settings api is comprised of several functions. The most important of which are: register_setting – Registers our setting with WordPress, which […]