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Simple Flickr Display Plugin

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Pippin in Beginner, Free, Plugins, Quick Tips, Social, Tutorials, Utilities No Comments
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Ever wanted a function to display your Flickr photos anywhere you want? This quick plugin will give you exactly that: a simple function that you can place anywhere in your template that you want to display a list of photos from a Flickr account.

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Add Already Registered Taxonomy to Custom Post Type

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Pippin in Custom Post Types, Intermediate, Quick Tips, Taxonomies 9 Comments

Sometimes, when using a custom post type in your plugins (or themes), it is desirable to add the already-registered taxonomies (Post Tags and Categories by default) to your custom object type. This quick code snippet will show you how to do that.

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Change “Enter title here” Text for Custom Post Types

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Pippin in Custom Post Types, Intermediate, Quick Tips, Tutorials, Writing Plugins 2 Comments

Custom Post Types are an increasingly popular tool for WordPress developers to use when constructing their plugins. There are many, many little tricks that help to make the finished product more polished, and one of those is changing the “Enter title here” text that is displayed in the Post Title field on the edit screen. [...]

View Post cpt, custom post type, rewrite

Redirect to Custom Login Page on Failed Login

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Pippin in Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorials 14 Comments

A lot of times people wish to place a front end login form on their Website, which helps to hide the fact that the site is running WordPress. This works great, except when a user has a fail login attempt. When that happens, they are automatically directed to the default wp-login.php, which is not good [...]

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WordPress Login Form Short Code

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Pippin in Beginner, Free, Plugins, Quick Tips, Short Codes, Short Codes, Tutorials, Utilities 55 Comments
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A lot of people want the ability to display the WordPress login form within the content of one of the site’s pages. By default, WordPress does not provide any way to do this, so we are going to write a really quick, simple short code to display the login form.

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Display Human Readable Time

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Pippin in Beginner, Quick Tips, Tutorials No Comments

Human readable time formats means that the date of a post or comment is displayed as “x time ago”. This format is much easier to read and interpret, and gives the reader a “relative sense” of when the item was published.

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Retrieve Registered Users From the Database

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Pippin in Intermediate, Quick Tips, Tutorials, WordPress Database 1 Comment

This useful little tip will show you how to retrieve an array of registered users from your WordPress database. We will use the get_users() function to query the database and return an array of users matching our parameters.

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Simple WordPress Widget Template

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Pippin in Intermediate, Quick Tips, Tutorials, Widget Tutorials 12 Comments

Widgets are utilized by tons of WordPress themes and plugins as a way to display customized content in various locations, and they’re relatively easy to create, as long as you have the appropriate resources. The code below will give you everything you need to make extensive and advanced widgets that can do anything you want. [...]

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Load Scripts on Plugin Pages Only

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Pippin in Intermediate, Quick Tips, Tutorials, Working with jQuery, Writing Plugins 3 Comments

Loading scripts, CSS and jQuery, within a plugin for use on admin pages is one of the most common areas that developers make mistakes. If you plugin’s administrative pages require any scripts that are not already loaded in WordPress by default, you should always ensure that those scripts are only loaded on your plugin’s page, [...]

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Add a Short Code to Your Plugin

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Pippin in Beginner, Quick Tips, Short Codes, Tutorials, Writing Plugins 5 Comments

Short Codes are everywhere; they are one of the main features that theme authors advertise, and they are tremendous tools for plugin developers. Adding a short code to your plugin is quite simple, actually.

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