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 [...]
New Wordpress Plugin: Default Post Content
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 [...]
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 [...]