As many stated before me: “A good WordPress citizen only loads their files where they’re needed”. This principle applies both to front-end and back-end (admin). There’s no justification for loading CSS and JS files on every admin page when you only need them on one single page you created. Thankfully doing things the right way is only one function call away.
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When writing long articles the full screen mode comes in handy. The clutter gets out of the way, but it is annoying when the results look different than in the editor.
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In a recent article by Claudio Simeone, he demonstrated how you could add extra columns to your post, or custom post type, admin screens (or remove existing ones). In this quick tip I build on that by showing you how to make your newly created columns sortable.
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We’ve read it numerous times – a good WordPress citizen only loads their JavaScript where it is needed. This practice minimizes site load times and conflicts with other scripts. However, most articles only discuss the use of wp_enqueue_script for conditional JavaScript loading in the context of the WordPress admin, plugin admin pages, or front-end pages as a whole. But what about isolating our JavaScript to a particular front-end page? We could potentially get fancy with if statements, but WordPress provides a helpful API with a filter for handling just this sort of thing without if – so let’s take a look under the hood.
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You can create beautiful image galleries in WordPress using the Gallery shortcode. You can even create your own templates for implementing galleries and do a lot of things. But what if you want to split an image gallery into multiple pages? WordPress provides Pagination functions for everything but nothing for the gallery. Here you will learn how to achieve that in a very simple manner.
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Have you ever written a function for your WordPress theme or plugin, only to be told later by someone else, “But WordPress already has a function for that”? Most of us have at one time or another, because we forget to check in the Codex or even in WordPress’ code. Consider this a reminder!
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There’s nothing worse than scrolling through a long post or page when it’s obvious that it should have been broken into a series of more easily-digested chunks. It’s very easy to accomplish in WordPress and more people should do it. Here’s how you can.
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“How to Utilize Akamai CDN on Your WordPress Site Without Busting Your Bank Account” Sounds impressive? It is! I have found a solution to integrate the Akamai CDN without having me to pay a lot, thus making CDN affordable to a lot more people. It still isn’t free and it won’t work for every webhost/CDN setup, but it’s definitely cheaper than some CDN setups… and it might just work for you!
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Search engines like Google are, for most blogs, owners of a large chunk of referrals through users discovering your site through search. Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) is the process of improving a website’s standing with regular, algorithmic search engines. This can lead to more visitors as your site becomes better equipped to deal with search engines and their accompanying traffic.
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Here are some short but handy code snippets that may make your life as a WordPress developer a little easier. We’ll cover a little bit of everything, from how to automatically delete posts, how to quickly dish out a post thumbnail, to how to redirect users once they’ve logged in. Open up your text-replacement program and get ready to add a few new shortcuts!
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