How To: List Filters That You Are About to Apply
I was working on a project where I had to find out all the registered filters that I was about to apply, so here’s a WordPress quickie for you! I found this out by inspecting the apply_filters function...
View ArticleEncode Entities Inside PRE Tags
Here’s a little Python script that searches through a given file for pre tags and encodes anything in between. This is useful for when escaping from syntax highlighting plugins and replacing every...
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Post Formats in WordPress: Breaking Down Those Quotes
Here’s a function that would grab the contents HTML and parse out the first quote (blockquote element) together with it’s cite (usually the quote author) and the remaining text that comes after the...
View ArticleCleaner Titles in WordPress
Quick Tip! What happens when your post title does not fit on one line? It wraps to the second line. What if it’s only one word? And what if that word is “it” or some other shorty? Your title won’t look...
View ArticleAttachments Filename and Directory in WordPress
I was trying to figure out how to get the absolute directory of an attachment post in WordPress. Turns out there’s no easy function that can give you one, but there is one called wp_upload_dir which...
View ArticleVarnish and Preview Posts in WordPress
I wrote earlier that I started playing around with Varnish here on my site and that post has a little snippet that strips all incoming and outgoing cookies (except the admin of course.) Today I...
View ArticleChange the year of all posts in a particular category to 2012
Snippet! Change the year of all posts in a particular category to 2012 with a single SQL query (use with phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line interface) UPDATE wp_posts AS p JOIN wp_term_relationships...
View ArticleHow to Get the Current URL in WordPress
Here’s a quick tip! I was wandering around the web for the perfect solution to retrieve the current URL in a WordPress theme or plugin. I found a bunch of solutions for PHP, but not directly related to...
View ArticleNative Image Sizing “On the Fly” with WordPress
I tweeted it out not too long ago, and it seems to have gotten people’s attention. So why do WordPress theme developers still use TimThumb? One of the valid reasons seems to be dynamic image sizing. Of...
View ArticleHow to: Disable HTTP Calls in WordPress
Sometimes you’re travelling on a plane or on a boat, in the metro or on the road. Sometimes you just have a crappy Internet connection, and you’ll notice that a local WordPress install (mostly admin...
View ArticleHow To: List Filters That You Are About to Apply
I was working on a project where I had to find out all the registered filters that I was about to apply, so here’s a WordPress quickie for you! I found this out by inspecting the apply_filters function...
View ArticleEncode Entities Inside PRE Tags
Here’s a little Python script that searches through a given file for pre tags and encodes anything in between. This is useful for when escaping from syntax highlighting plugins and replacing every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Post Formats in WordPress: Breaking Down Those Quotes
Here’s a function that would grab the contents HTML and parse out the first quote (blockquote element) together with it’s cite (usually the quote author) and the remaining text that comes after the...
View ArticleCleaner Titles in WordPress
Quick Tip! What happens when your post title does not fit on one line? It wraps to the second line. What if it’s only one word? And what if that word is “it” or some other shorty? Your title won’t look...
View ArticleAttachments Filename and Directory in WordPress
I was trying to figure out how to get the absolute directory of an attachment post in WordPress. Turns out there’s no easy function that can give you one, but there is one called wp_upload_dir which...
View ArticleVarnish and Preview Posts in WordPress
I wrote earlier that I started playing around with Varnish here on my site and that post has a little snippet that strips all incoming and outgoing cookies (except the admin of course.) Today I...
View ArticleChange the year of all posts in a particular category to 2012
Snippet! Change the year of all posts in a particular category to 2012 with a single SQL query (use with phpMyAdmin or the MySQL command line interface) UPDATE wp_posts AS p JOIN wp_term_relationships...
View ArticleHow to Get the Current URL in WordPress
Here’s a quick tip! I was wandering around the web for the perfect solution to retrieve the current URL in a WordPress theme or plugin. I found a bunch of solutions for PHP, but not directly related to...
View ArticleNative Image Sizing “On the Fly” with WordPress
I tweeted it out not too long ago, and it seems to have gotten people’s attention. So why do WordPress theme developers still use TimThumb? One of the valid reasons seems to be dynamic image sizing. Of...
View ArticleHow to: Disable HTTP Calls in WordPress
Sometimes you’re travelling on a plane or on a boat, in the metro or on the road. Sometimes you just have a crappy Internet connection, and you’ll notice that a local WordPress install (mostly admin...
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