Sometimes when I'm working in the backend of so many different WordPress sites I like to change the admin color scheme so I can tell at a glance what site I'm working with. While working on a rebrand for Web Hosting for Students, I came across a great admin color scheme, called WP Admin Classic Colors, that looks … Continue reading A “Classic” Color Scheme Plugin for the WordPress Admin Area
I have taken off a number of months in 2015 from speaking at WordCamps, but I'm excited to announce that I'll be speaking at WordCamp Philly (June 13-14). My talk will be about WordPress hooks, actions and filters. This is something I tried to talk on last year, but have learned a lot more in how … Continue reading Speaking Announcement – WordCamp Philly 2015
Whether it's the new PressThis interface (used to publish this post 😉 ), character support for things like emoticons, switching themes in the customizer, or the complex query ordering in WP_Query and the other advanced querying classes, WordPress 4.2, "Powell" brings some nice updates to WordPress. Check out the video above and the original blog post for the release … Continue reading Loving the New WordPress 4.2 “Powell” Updates
I'm excited to be speaking today at WordCamp Chicago on the topic of "Why Setting Up Themes is a Niche in Itself, What to Know" Please check out my slides below:
Today I'm presenting All About Themes at the WordCamp Miami 2014 Beginners Workshop. Here's the slide deck for those following along:
Big shout out to Otto for his article on Child Themes. I was recently trying to overwrite parent theme functions and came across this article. Scroll down a bit to Overriding Functions to see how it's done.
I have been working on a project that needs to occasionally send off emails. If you need to do so, here's how with wp_mail(): add_filter('wp_mail_content_type',create_function('', 'return "text/html"; ')); wp_mail('whoever@whatever.com', 'Subject', 'Message'); Thanks to WordPress Cheat Sheets for the code!
Today I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Austin 2014 on "The Ins and Outs of the WordPress Template Hierarchy." Here are the slides for the talk: Google Presentation Link Here is the example template I used: Template Hierarchy Theme Thanks to everyone who attended!
This took me a while to figure out when I started intuitively using $wpdb->query to pull in results from a query in a custom table in WordPress. However, $wpdb->query only returns the count of the query. You have to use $wpdb->get_results to get the actual SELECT statement back. Good to know, and will save you … Continue reading The difference between $wpdb->query vs. $wpdb->get_results in WordPress
Big thanks to Micah Wood for his article showing how to load conditional stylesheets the right way via the functions.php file. Thanks Micah for the great post!
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