Two of my friends have recently become vim fanatics. I played with vim a little before, but now I’ve made it my primary editor.
One thing that bugged me was that, by default, you are not able to copy text from vim into other applications in Ubuntu.
After finding out how to make sortable columns based on custom fields, several people have asked how they could sort posts by taxonomy terms. So here’s how to do it: Let’s presume we have a ‘product’post type, with a ‘color’taxonomy. Here’s some example code, just to get that out of the way. So we already [...]
See how you can finaly get rid of query_posts().
It’s pretty easy to inject content between posts if you have direct access to The Loop in the theme: $counter = 0; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if ( 1 == $counter ) echo ‘<div>Some banner</div>’; $counter++; // the_title() etc. endwhile; If you want to do this without modifying [...]
This summer I’ve been busy with my GSoC project, which involved making columns sortable on list-type screens in the WordPress administration area. Yesterday, that work was included in trunk.
That’s all very nice, you say, but how do I make sortable columns of my own?
In some cases, you need to prevent users from opening links to external sites in the same window.
And what’s the easiest way to do that? jQuery, of course! Here’s my take on it:
Categories are better than tags! Why? Because a category can have child categories, and grand-child categories and so on. You can do all sorts of interesting things with them.
Say you want to display the categories related to a certain post, while maintaining the hierarchy.
You could try to painstakingly re-create the category tree, or…
Ever since I’ve taken over development of the WP-PageNavi plugin, I keep seeing people opening support topics like “PageNavi doesn’t show the correct posts” etc.
Most of the time, your theme is using query_posts() wrong.
If you’re involved in WordPress development, a challenge that you’re going to face sooner or later is how to include JavaScript files efficiently.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you the best way to do that.
In PHP, you use the self keyword to access static properties and methods.
The problem is that you can replace $this->method() with self::method() anywhere, regardless if method() is declared static or not. So which one should you use?