The new admin bar, now named the tool bar, in WordPress 3.3 is great. It’s really well organized and cleans the dashboard up a lot. It’s also great for developers because adding new links to settings pages, documentation, or other useful links, is quite simple. In this quick tip, I’m going to show you how [...]
View Post add_menu, admin_bar_menu, admin_menu, toolbarThe built-in WordPress gallery systems leaves much to be desired. It works well if a theme supports it, but it can be difficult to customize, especially if you have any special markup you’d like with the gallery. While working on a client’s theme, I wrote up a quick short code function that can be used [...]
View Post attachments, images, short codeOne of the things I’d always disliked about the core get_the_excerpt() function in WordPress is that it does not allow you to retrieve an excerpt based on a post ID or object. This limitation means that this function is essentially useless in custom WordPress loops that do not have the global $post object set up. [...]
View Post excerpt, postIf you have lots of posts in your WordPress site, you have probably used the Category and/or Tag filters at the top of the post list page. These filters are great because they very quickly allow you to limit the kind of posts that are displayed, and let you find the one(s) you are looking [...]
View Post drop down, filter, post types, taxonomyBeing able to quickly find the unique ID number of any user in your WordPress database can be very useful, especially if you run a website with lots of users. One of the ways that we can easily find a user’s ID is by customizing the table displayed on the wp-admin/users.php page. We can add [...]
View Post columns, users, user_idThe world of plugins can seem a scary place to venture if you’ve never been there before. I remember when I first started, it was because I wrote a tutorial over at Pro Blog Design about how to create a custom Font Uploader for your WordPress theme, and readers asked that I make it into [...]
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Being able to restrict certain content to logged in members only is a very useful function, especially for membership based websites, whether free or premium. This quick tutorial shows you the basics of how to write a short code function that will allow you to limit blocks of content to logged in users only.
View Post is_user_Logged_in()This video will give you a quick demonstration of how to modify the Contextual Help tab on any WordPress admin page. This trick is particularly useful for users wishing to add extra information to an already-existing help tab, such as the one on the Themes or Plugins page.
View Post contextual help, help tabThe “Help” tab is a very underused, under rated, but fantastic tool for all plugin developers. If you’re not familiar with it, the “Help” tab is a little button in the top right corner of your WordPress dashboard that, when clicked, will bring in a nice slide-down panel with helpful information.
View Post contextual help, help tabEspecially when developing plugins or theme settings that make use of the WordPress media uploader to upload and insert images, being able to retrieve the ID of the image uploaded can be extremely useful. By grabbing the image (attachment) ID, you suddenly have a lot more control over what you can do with the image, [...]
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