PHP Posts

Sometimes we have content that is specific to a certain country and we only want to show, or hide, it for visitors from that country. Or maybe we want to change some of the language used on…

Listing posts by taxonomy term is a common feature requested when displaying blog posts. Sometimes you also want to separate those posts in sections by their year like this: 2017 News 2017 News Post 2017 News…

The holidays are almost over and 2016 is in the books, and as much as some people would like to put it behind them we need to first take care of some simple housekeeping. So leave…

After following a tutorial for getting the taxonomy terms of a node, I found that I still didn’t have all the pieces of the puzzle. Doing a foreach over $tags = $node->field_tags; would just give a…

So one function in WordPress that operates very well is “the_excerpt”. If you like the way it applies it’s own character limit but don’t like what it adds at the end, this is the post for…

So there is a strange anomaly in WordPress when you send an excerpt of a post into a javascript object. If the excerpt has a line break, it will break the object and give you a javascript error….

So lets talk about proper image implementation. We sometimes run into clients who would like slideshow galleries while uploading 2000-5000px wide images. And it’s important to understand that content managers are not going to KNOW what…

Up until now I’ve been mainly working in WordPress, mainly because of my love for ACF and their abilities to have repeating groups of fields. And I finally found a resource that helped me achieve the…

This is an interesting situation. You might have migrated your blog lately or your hosting provider moved your database somewhere and all the sudden your WordPress blog is no longer showing up in Safari. It may…

Limiting the characters in a given field is a good way to dummyproof your admin dashboard so content writers don’t write novel length entries for a field that should only be a few words. This could…

Working on a lot of WordPress sites, I’ve never encountered this till this point. The first clue was that I couldn’t just install plugins from the plugin library, i had to install them manually. However, updating…

So you want to make an events list in WordPress? There is a lot to do! First off lets define how this should work. Since I’m writing this blog I’ll tell you how mine works and…

For the uninitiated, the recursive function can be a mind-bender. The concept, however, is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance. The difficulty of a recursive function is that it must have a…

We recently had to send a delete request to a javascript confirm. We were using bootstrap so instead of the standard confirm(); command we wanted to display our own module. We also wanted a universal command…

A useful feature of many coding languages is the “for loop”. A basic loop in php has for following structure: for (init; condition; increment) { code to be executed; } Parameters: init: Mostly used to set…