Working with dates in PHP can get cumbersome. Especially when you need to calculate a date occurrence in the past or future. These examples should help get those dates, and output them in a human readable format. PHP Date Formatting Y 4 digit year (2018) y 2 digit year (18) F Long month (January) M […]
Using the custom menu builder in wordpress to output submenus with the following code. Useful when you want to add dynamic submenus to the sidebar based on the parent child layout from the menu builder. I prefer this to the old method of assigning parent child relationships on the page settings, since we already have
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Stop using @import in child themes. Use the following code in your functions.php file to enqueue the parent theme style.css file, and avoid using @import. reference: https://konstantin.blog/2014/child-themes-import/
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Get ride of over branding and the related videos at the end of the video for wordpress oEmbed videos.
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I recently needed to work with a taxonomy that was created for a custom post type, where I needed to access the parent taxonomy. I came across this same code in the wordpress support forums. It should be useful when working with taxonomy’s in the future. reference: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-current-taxonomy-has-child-andor-parent
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Occasionally I have new clients that don’t have access to their control panel, so that a dump of the database cannot easily be performed from a nice GUI interface (Very useful when I want to setup their site for local development). If the server allows executing mysqldump from in php, the following code can be
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This is a collection of useful regular expressions that I’ve found useful in doing some powerful manipulation of text, or extracting specific data. source source source
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I recently had a site where the client wanted to have the resellers register for access to specific pages, but we didn’t want those users to see the admin bar displayed on the front end of the site once they logged in using wordpress user accounts. The following code will disable that admin bar for
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$_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] is good for getting the full path to your websites root folder, but depending on the DocumentRoot directive in httpd.conf you may or may not have a forward slash at the end of the returned url. This always annoys me when developing locally and everything is working. Then you upload and test on the production system,
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The problem with just echoing a php sting for a javascript variable is escaping the sting properly for single and double quotes and line returns. I found this fix for my problem with an apostrophe in the string that closed out the quote early. This is a better option that trying to use addslashes. Use json_encode instead.
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