Category Archives: Development

information about stuff i’m up to.

Using shortcodes in a template file in WordPress

I’m using Contact Form 7 on a website I’m building. Currently, Contact Form 7 uses shortcodes, meaning you can drop forms into posts. Something like

You can’t use shortcodes Read More »

Replacing multiple occurrences of a string in JS

I’m a little disappointed JQuery doesn’t have something uber fancy for this. Something that always catches me out is when trying to replace occurrences of a string, it only replaces Read More »

Geolocation with Google Maps

A while back I wrote a proof of concept for a site which, at its core, allowed people to pick a location on a map. It used the long/lat for Read More »

Controlling layout with Featured Image sizes in WordPress

Recently, I was working with a WordPress theme that includes a “featured image” (added recently to WordPress). Instead of just displaying it on the frontend, I wanted to know how Read More »

Using post items in Smarty from dynamic variable names

I’m building a site at the moment that uses the Smarty templating engine and I came across a snag today. The global “Smarty” variable includes a nice $Smarty.post reference where Read More »

NoFollow links in comments within WordPress

I’ve recently added comments back into my blog. I know that Askimet will do the majority of the work in protecting me from SPAM, but I wanted to make sure Read More »

Only display add a comment if the post is recent in WordPress

I’ve always got quite a lot of comment spam on the blog, and this is mostly for older posts that I assume are already dead and wouldn’t be commented on. Read More »

How to get a Twitter feed into your WordPress theme

Since Twitter changed things, you’re probably better off looking at A WordPress Twitter stream, without the RSS…     WordPress comes with a version of Magpie RSS as part of Read More »

Tags for custom post types

Custom post types can share tags with normal posts. To do this, add the following line into your custom post declaration.

Custom post types can actually also have their Read More »

Accessing WordPress features outside of your WordPress template

This problem has come up once before, but I found another way of dealing with the issue. However, this time, it seems that I’m going to need to find a Read More »

How to get the children of a page (by slug)

Every now and then, I need to display a list of all the child pages of a top level page in WordPress. This might be for a sub menu, or Read More »

WordPress data import

I imported 900 odd articles from a website we’re migrating from another system into WordPress. The information was in CSV format, so I built a quick and dirty PHP script Read More »