Occasionally, I’ll run into a situation where I need to call a post specifically using the get_post() function. get_post() returns a Post object, with a number of member variables – the one that stores the actual content of the post being post_content. However, if you try just echoing $post->post_content, you’ll get completely unformatted text – which [...]
How To: Get an Overview of all Action and Filter Hooks
Here’s a very cool little tidbit I found today (strangely enough, I found it in the bbpress codebase, while working on a bbpress plugin..) Wordpress keeps track of which function/filter combinations are registered, along with which action hooks have been called at any point. If you’re having trouble trying to figure out which action hook [...]
Creating User Friendly Custom Fields by Modifying the Post Page
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 [...]
Maybe_Serialize and the Magic of Wordpress
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 [...]