Quick Tip: Fix Visual Editor / TinyMCE in WordPress
I recently had an interesting problem where the Visual Editor (or TinyMCE) wasn’t working in WordPress. 4.0. I tried the normal stuff as recommended by most forums and blog posts, including…
Quick Tips
Add Attachments to WordPress Search Results
I feel like this has to have been done a lot, and there are great plugins out there for it, but if you’re just looking to add a quick function to your theme (or a really simple plugin) yourself, here’s how to modify WordPress’ search query to include attachments (like images). function attachment_search( $query ) { …
Quick Tip: Turn off Amazon Wishlist Spoilers
While talking to my mother, whom I sent my Amazon Wishlist to for gift ideas, she told me to not check Amazon until Christmas because she bought stuff off of my list and didn’t want me to see what she got. Luckily, Amazon has thought of this, and there is a really simple way to make …
GitGutter for Sublime Makes Diffs Easy
At Crowd Favorite we use git for everything, which is a nice change from my old workflow of hoping for the best. I’ve learned quite a bit about git and Github since starting and have looked for tools to help me do things better. A really simple, but super helpful, tool is the GitGutter package for …
Quick Tip: Check to See if a Slug Exists in WordPress
Recently I was doing some work where I was importing RSS entries into a Custom Post Type in WordPress. Since there were no common IDs between the feed and WordPress, to prevent duplicate entries I tried comparing titles. This also proved to be an issue as titles aren’t always unique, and they weren’t in this …
Quick Tip: Check to See if a Slug Exists in WordPress Read More »
Quick Tip: Use Post or Page Slug as CSS Class in WordPress
I don’t know why, but for some reason, I thought WordPress already included the slug of a post or page in either the function body_class() or post_class(). Doing some work over this weekend I realized that’s not the case, but luckily, it’s very easy to do. The functions body_class() and post_class() serve as a way …
Quick Tip: Use Post or Page Slug as CSS Class in WordPress Read More »
Quick Tip: Use an Icon with Responsive-Nav.js an Icon Font
Responsive Nav is a really nifty (and light-weight) Javascript plugin that will allow you to easily create an off-canvas navigation menu that slides down from off the screen. Here’s a quick and easy way to use an icon instead of your run of the mill plain text.
Quick Tip: Download an Archive of your Facebook Data
There’s a lot going on on the Internet right now. Websites getting hacked (Blizzard being the most recent), companies doing presumably whatever they want with our data, and the cultivation of a group of people who over-share (this includes yours truly). I’ve written a bit on Facebook and other social media and how I think …
Quick Tip: Download an Archive of your Facebook Data Read More »
WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping on Media Temple (dv)
I recently stood up a WordPress Network/Multisite that I wanted to use for several different client “Quick Sites” – simple WordPress sites I offer that don’t require a lot of customization. I thought my steps were simple; install WordPress Multisite and then get top-level domain mapping working. The latter was not as easy as I thought …
WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping on Media Temple (dv) Read More »
Quick Tip: How to Un-shrink a Sweater
So this isn’t really tech related, but I’m a guy and not a very bright one at that. Last week a bought a new sweater, wore it out over the weekend and had to wash it. I of-course ignored the dry-clean only label and my brother’s warning and threw it in with the rest of the clothes. …