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Create WordPress custom template based on category slug

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 05:23:02 +0000

To create a custom template in WordPress for specific categories based on the slug is not a built-in function. Not sure why since it makes sense to build this capability without creating a new filter. This could be plug-in, but it’s so simple, it’s one of those things you wonder why it’s taking so long […]

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Enabling shortcodes in WordPress excerpts aren’t automatic, but here’s the override

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:39:46 +0000

To enable shortcodes in WordPress excerpts you have to add this to your active theme’s (hopefully a child theme) functions.php file: add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

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WordPress Debug Toolbar plug-in comes in handy for WordPress Developers

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:20:28 +0000

I recently ran into some issues with a heavily customized WordPress site. Something was overriding something else somewhere, somehow... The dreaded “find the problem then traverse back through the code” solution again raised its ugly head. Oh, the futility, you time-sucking code bug. Why didn’t the previous developer leave more DOCUMENTATION?!!!!! Sometimes, you can at […]

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Allowing shortcodes in WordPress category pages

Aaron Belchamber — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:23:29 +0000

To allow shortcodes in your WordPress category pages, just go into your active theme’s function.php and add:

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Disable WordPress theme and plug-in file editing from inside admin

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:58:11 +0000

To tighten security of your WordPress site, you can disable users’ ability to edit your theme and plug-in files. After all, isn’t that what your web development team should be doing? How are you capturing updates to your site’s files if you allow this and you don’t commit changes to the code repository? It’s never […]

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CollabPress: A simple project management tool inside a free WordPress plug-in

Aaron Belchamber — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:49:15 +0000

Some people are so enamored with these shiny new project management tools that load so nicely on our smart phones that they forget it should be a transparent part of the project and not a task and part of the process of completing the project. I’m lucky to be at a place where it’s used […]

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WordPress Sites: Customize login page with different logo and URL

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:42:43 +0000

For those who use BuddyPress on top of WordPress, you might want to update your register and log-in page by replacing the familiar WordPress login page with a branded logo themed to your current site. Just add this code to your active child theme’s function.php file and update what I put in for “ProflicFutility.com” with […]

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Access post, page, category and author information in custom template page or embedded PHP script within WordPress

Aaron Belchamber — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:30:02 +0000

In a custom page you call as a template in WordPress, this is the standard way to access some of the information about the particular post or page being viewed. This is possible by accessing the WordPress query object, which is already instantiated by WordPress in a global class called $wp_query. There is much more […]

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Sample useful WordPress shortcodes – show Google ad snippet, user’s IP address, current time

Aaron Belchamber — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 21:27:22 +0000

Here are a few more useful WordPress shortcodes. Simply copy the code and paste it into your active theme’s “function.php”. You can call on shortcodes with the square brackets inside your post or pages: Insert a Google ad snippet, horizonal 720 x 90 pixels: Show computer’s IP address: [[show_ip]] — produces: [show_ip] /* Allows insertion […]

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WordPress Genesis: How to remove H1 tags and page titles from header if not on a homepage

Aaron Belchamber — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 00:07:30 +0000

As you scan your site for opportunities to optimize, your SEO results will probably tell you that on certain pages of your website you have two or more H1 tags. By far not the most egregious of violations, you don’t want to confuse those simple-minded robots called search engines that can’t figure out the first […]

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