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Tammy Hart is a self-taught designer and developer that has specialized in building custom WordPress websites for over 5 years. She blogs about her craft at Tammy Hart Designs, which is listed on Alltop, and her most recent project is the development of a WordPress Recipe Plugin. You can find her designs on Dribbble, share some code on Forrst, and follow her on Twitter @tammyhart.

Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 4: Using the Data

Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 4: Using the Data

Tammy Hart on Apr 20th 2012 with 11 comments
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Reusable Custom Meta Boxes

In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of our custom meta box template tutorial series, we learned how to make a reusable meta box that gets all of the field information from an easy to read, easy to duplicate array. A lot of the data is simple to use by just echoing the meta field in your template or through a function, but some of the fields are more complex and require a bit more finesse to use properly. This tutorial will give you a basic idea of how to use this data and can be expounded on in countless ways.

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Quick Tip: Display Excerpts of Child Pages with a Shortcode

Quick Tip: Display Excerpts of Child Pages with a Shortcode

Tammy Hart on Feb 7th 2012 with 21 comments

Sometimes we have a page just for the sake of making it a parent of other pages. I’ve even seen these pages left blank! You should at least have a small paragraph for the sake of search engines and visitors alike, but what about also offering a snippet of the subpages to read similar to how your blog page does posts?

In this quick tip, we’ll create a little function that will query the page for child pages, display titles, excerpts and links if it finds any, and add it to a shortcode for use from the WordPress page editor.

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Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 3: Extra Fields

Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 3: Extra Fields

Tammy Hart on Jan 10th 2012 with 88 comments
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Reusable Custom Meta Boxes

In Part 1 and Part 2 of our custom meta box template tutorial series, we learned how to create a field array to loop through and create a custom meta box with your standard fields. Now let’s throw in a bit of JavaScript for some fancy, but highly useful fields.

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Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 2: Advanced Fields

Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 2: Advanced Fields

Tammy Hart on Dec 15th 2011 with 14 comments
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Reusable Custom Meta Boxes

In Part 1 of our custom meta box template tutorial series, we covered how to set up a custom meta box that loops through an array of fields and outputs each one with the necessary html for various types of form fields. Now we’re ready to start adding a few advanced items to the array and switch case.

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Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 1: Intro and Basic Fields

Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 1: Intro and Basic Fields

Tammy Hart on Dec 9th 2011 with 43 comments
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Reusable Custom Meta Boxes

There are a lot of tutorials on creating custom meta boxes, even just here on Wptuts, and it goes to show that having a good knowledge of these and a system for creating them is crucial to a successful WordPress theme or plugin project. In this series we won’t rehash what meta boxes are but instead we’ll create an easy system for plugging them into whatever your latest project is to keep your work moving consistently.

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