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Keep a track of what happens in your header and footer

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Vincent — Leave a comment

When developing a theme you should execute the wp_head and wp_footer functions in your theme’s header and footer. The functions are hooked with an action that enables other plug-ins to add necessary files and code. But it is always good…

Tagged with: html, meta tags
Posted in Intermediate

Add or change user contact fields

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Vincent — Leave a comment

When editing a user you can (by default) choose to add a user’s AIM, Yahoo and/or Jabber / Google Talk. It’s reasonable to think that you might want to add some more alternatives, or remove some even. So here’s how…

Tagged with: contact, meta data, users
Posted in Intermediate

Add the excerpt meta box to ‘Edit page’

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Vincent — 7 Comments

I do not know why the excerpt meta box is not shown by default when editing pages. I often list pages when using WordPress as a CMS, and I very often use excerpt when doing lists. So how do you…

Tagged with: excerpt, the_excerpt
Posted in Intermediate

WordPress saves Objects and Arrays as serialized strings

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Vincent — Leave a comment

If you often use functions such as update_option, update_post_meta (or any meta-function for that matter) it might be useful to know that the value you pass can be mixed. When looking the function reference for add_post_meta, it says that the…

Tagged with: meta data, serialization
Posted in Intermediate

How to change the allowed HTML tags for WordPress

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Vincent — 26 Comments

WordPress by default filters out potentially harmful and/or invalid HTML. But in some cases you might want some of that invalid HTML! One of those cases occurred today when we needed to embed a Google Form in a post. To…

Tagged with: html, iframe, vimeo, youtube
Posted in Intermediate

Use an empty action attribute in forms

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Vincent — Leave a comment

When developing a simple form to use in your WordPress theme or plugin you often want to post to the same page. To do so, simply leave the action attribute empty in your form. Notice that your_name is used, using…

Tagged with: action attribute, forms
Posted in Best Practices, Intermediate

Remember to use the Shortcode API

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Vincent — Leave a comment

The Shortcode API is an excellent way to embed HTML code in your posts and pages without much effort from the user. In a recent project we had great use of the Shortcode API when we needed parts of our…

Tagged with: shortcode api
Posted in Intermediate