Here’s something that comes up for me pretty often: depending on what I’m trying to do, I sometimes need plugin functions to run (or not run) simply based on which admin page the user is visiting. Here’s the WordPress function that will give you the title of the currently loaded admin page:
get_admin_page_title()
So, if you only [...]
Post meta is easily one of the most useful features in WordPress from a developer’s perspective. Adding custom content to a post provides the ability to accomplish countless goals quickly and easily. Sometimes, it makes sense to give the user access to a post meta field – for example, if they need to add a thumbnail [...]
In one of many, many strokes of genius, the WordPress core developers threw in a bit of code to allow users (ok, other developers) to define a custom user table, and a custom usermeta table for a WordPress install. In it’s simplest form, you can point your Wordpress user table at that of another blog on [...]
Justin over at justintadlock.com made a post a few days ago about how to preset text in the WordPress post editor. It’s a great post, with an interesting filter detailed. In the comments, somebody mentioned that they’d like to be able to preset custom fields as well – something that seems like it shouldn’t work [...]
This isn’t a terribly difficult task – it’s incredibly common, and it’s covered multiple places in the codex. So why am I writing about it? A few months ago, I was tasked with customizing a plugin – one that someone else wrote. I need to add some options to it, and their [...]
