Ralph over at ForTheLose.org wrote up a great post on how to use custom fields in wordpress a few days ago, and I thought I’d expand on it with another feature that I use for clients quite often. Custom fields are a great way to store extra post information, and they can really make for [...]
As you may have noticed in a post I made a few days ago about widetizing wordpress plugins, I mentioned that we needed to serialize our variables before we created them as options in wordpress. As it turns out, this isn’t the case – WordPress does it for you when you go to update or [...]
The quick version? Include wp-load.php and wp-admin/admin-functions.php in a file in the plugin directory, and point your cron there. For those of you with nothing important to do, a long winded explanation: I ran into a project a few days ago where the client needed a simple plugin put together – read an xml file, pull [...]
This probably isnt something that comes up too often for the average user – your URL is your identity – so switching them isnt a great choice. In client work, however, this comes up all the time – development work takes place locally on your computer WAMP/MAMP, or on your server, where the client can [...]
So, every time I need to write a widget for a client, or for a site I’m working on, I have to fire up google. Even though its something I do relatively often, I just can’t seem to remember what exactly I need to hook into, and how to build the actual widget function. Fortunately, this information [...]
