Prevent SVG from Overflowing Div Container
April 13, 2020Steps to prevent an SVG from overflowing its div container: On the element, remove the inline and attributes, if present. On the…
Delete Transients with prefix in WordPress
February 27, 2020Often in WordPress development, you need to save transients to the database that have dynamic names, like this: This results in dynamically…
JavaScript Array Filter to get Indices
September 16, 2019JavaScript’s array method is awesome for pulling out just the values that you want. What if instead of getting those values though, you…
How to Add an AdSense ads.txt file to a Gatsby site
July 08, 2019If you have a site built on Gatsby.js and have received a notification that you need to add an file to the root of the site, this is how…
When do WordPress Unit Tests Run (At Which Hook?)
June 27, 2019Writing unit tests for a WordPress plugin recently had me wondering: When do WordPress unit tests run? Meaning, at what point during the…
get_post_author() by Post ID in WordPress
June 23, 2019WordPress doesn’t have a native function you can call to get the user ID for the author of a post. This function can be used for that…
Find All Pages that Contain a Gravity Form
March 29, 2019The class below can be used to locate all the pages that contain a specific Gravity Form. It searches the post content of each page. If the…
WordPress User Query Not Working with AJAX/WP-Cron
March 05, 2019Recently, I was trying to do a user query on a WordPress site, but found that the query wasn’t able to fetch the users I wanted it to. This…
Get a list of all WordPress Pages that Contain a Shortcode
March 04, 2019The function below can be used to get a list of all WordPress pages that contain a shortcode. You can use it like this: , replacing with…
PHP: Make an Array of Objects Unique By Comparing a Property
February 02, 2019If you have an indexed array of objects, and you want to remove duplicates by comparing a specific property in each object, a function like…
Get all Gravity Forms with CSS Class
January 20, 2019The functions below can be used to get a list of all Gravity Forms whose fields have a specific CSS class: Calling the first function looks…
Get All Super Admin Users in WordPress
January 07, 2019WordPress’ function can be used to get the logins for all the users on the current site. Its return value is in array that looks like…
Get a List of the Beaver Builder Modules on a Page
September 26, 2018I’ve been doing some work lately with the Beaver Builder page builder for WordPress. For one feature, I needed to get a list of all the…
Override WordPress REST API Callbacks for Protected Pages or Posts
July 07, 2018I was recently working on a headless WordPress project. It has a React frontend that uses the WP REST API to communicate with the WP backend…
Check if a Remote Image File Exists in WordPress
June 27, 2018If you want to check if a remote image file exists on a WordPress site but don’t necessarily want to fetch or download that file, this…
Get Term Being Edited on term.php WordPress Admin Page
April 03, 2018The function below can be used for getting the object for the term that’s currently being edited on the page in the WordPress admin…
Get Menu Modified Date in WordPress
February 23, 2018WordPress doesn’t store a last modified date for navigation menus, so I created the set of functions below for keeping track of when menus…
Download and Insert a Remote Image File into the WordPress Media Library
February 21, 2018I built the following class that downloads a remote image, moves it into the /uploads/ directory of your site, adds it to WordPress as a new…
How to Transfer WordPress.org Plugin Ownership/Committers
July 26, 2017To transfer WordPress.org plugin ownership to someone else: Update the plugin’s file, changing the , and in the plugin header and…
Advanced Custom Fields wysiwyg Toolbar Buttons Missing
June 29, 2017If you notice that a site has Advanced Custom Fields wysiwyg toolbar buttons missing, it is likely because the toolbar is being displayed…
Get Uploads Directory Path in WordPress
April 21, 2017The following function can be used to get the absolute path to the WordPress uploads directory: It will return a path to where the WordPress…
Get the Slugs for All Fields in an Advanced Custom Fields Flexible Content Field
April 19, 2017The following function can be used to get the slugs of all fields in an Advanced Custom Fields flexible content field. By default, it…
Include Featured Images with Posts Using WordPress Export/Import Tool
February 08, 2017When you use the basic WordPress XML Export/Import tool to migrate blog posts between two WordPress sites, their featured images will likely…
Get All WooCommerce Order Notes
November 17, 2016I’ve seen posts and documentation online for how to get just the customer notes for an order, but no great ones for how to get all…
Add unfiltered_html Capability to Admins or Editors in WordPress Multisite
September 13, 2016Per this Trac ticket , WP intentionally disallows adding the ‘unfiltered_html’ capability to any non-Super Admin users on the WordPress…
Edit Slug Button Missing in WordPress
September 12, 2016If somewhere in the code for a WordPress site there is a filter hooked to that’s replacing the URL so that it no longer contains the…
Save Gravity Forms File Upload to Advanced Custom Fields Field in WordPress
September 09, 2016Using the Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types WordPress plugin to map your Gravity-Forms-generated posts to a custom post type is very handy…
Get File Type by URL for a Remote File in WordPress
September 08, 2016If you want to get the file mime type for a remote file and you have its URL, the function below can be used. Example If the remote file is…
Get the Excerpt by Post ID in WordPress
September 06, 2016The entry in the WordPress Codex says that it returns “…either a user-supplied excerpt, that is returned unchanged, or an automatically…
Get User’s First and Last Name in WordPress
August 31, 2016The function below can be used to get a user’s first and last name with a space between them, like “Kellen Mace”. If they only have a first…
Check if User Exists by ID in WordPress
August 26, 2016WordPress has a built in function to check if a user exists by their username, but there isn’t a similar function for checking if a user…
Get Root Domain of a WordPress Multisite Network
August 19, 2016The functions below can be used to get the root domain of a WordPress site. If the site is a multisite network and you’re on , calling…
Get Main Site URL in WordPress Multisite Network
August 19, 2016The code below can be used to get the URL of the main site in the WordPress Multisite Network:
Disable CMB2 Styles on Front End Forms
August 17, 2016CMB2 comes with default styles, but you may want to disable them if you’re outputting forms on the front end so they can be styled to match…
Get URL to a User’s BuddyPress Activity Stream Page
July 23, 2016If the BuddyPress activity stream component is enabled, the tab showing the activity stream is typically accessible at the main user…
Get Post Types by Taxonomy in WordPress
June 16, 2016The code below can be used to get the post types for a taxonomy in WordPress. This is useful if you know the taxonomy and want to get the…
Remove Line Breaks in WordPress
June 02, 2016In the WordPress editor, lines that have a line break at the end of them will be turned into an HTML line break tag then they are output…
WP-CLI search-replace Tables Skipped
May 24, 2016WP-CLI ‘s command is invaluable for changing all the URLs from a production or staging site to reflect your local development environment…
Get Blog Posts Page URL (Permalink) in WordPress
May 20, 2016To get the URL (permalink) to the main blog posts page, you can use the function below. It will return the blog posts page URL whether the…
Advanced Custom Fields Metabox Priority for Top, Above Publish
May 11, 2016By default, all Advanced Custom Fields metaboxes with a position/context of “side” are given a priority of “core” which means that they’ll…
Copy Media File From One Site to Another Within a Multisite Network
May 05, 2016This class shows how to copy a file from one site to other sites within the same WordPress multisite network. This code uses to copy the…
Get User’s Capabilities in WordPress
May 05, 2016The function below can be used to get all of a user’s capabilities: If you pass a user ID to it, you will get that user’s capabilities. If…
Get Page Template for Post in WordPress Admin
May 05, 2016You can get the filename of the page template that the post in the WordPress admin is set to using: The function below gets the filename of…
WordPress Hook After Options Page Save
April 28, 2016If you want to hook into WordPress when an options page is saved and access the values that were entered, you can use . Let’s say for my…
Get the ID of the Main Site in a WordPress Multisite Network
April 05, 2016Here’s how you can get the ID of the main site in a WordPress multisite network. This can be useful for switching to that blog using to…
Change featured image title and link text in WordPress
April 01, 2016Update for WordPress 4.3+ As of WordPress 4.3, you can set the , , and labels to whatever custom text you’d like to use instead. You…
Set Image Caption via PHP in WordPress
March 22, 2016In order to change an image’s caption, you can of course find that image in the WordPress Media Gallery and enter a new value in the field…
Set Up SSL Locally on VVV/Vagrant WordPress Site
January 03, 2016This post covers how to set up a local SSL WordPress site. These instructions assume you’re on a Mac and use Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV…
Get Current User’s Role in WordPress
January 02, 2016There’s no WordPress function to directly get the current user’s role, so I typically include my own function to serve that purpose, similar…
Load Template From WordPress Plugin
December 11, 2015You can load a template file from your plugin using the filter, with code similar to this: If you’re looking for something more robust…
Download a Plugin or Theme from the WordPress Admin Dashboard
December 02, 2015Typically, if I need to download a plugin or theme that’s running on a remote server, I connect to that server via FTP or SSH and transfer…
Display WooThemes Testimonials Avatar before Quote
November 03, 2015By default, the WooThemes Testimonials WordPress plugin displays the quote, then the avatar (author’s image), then the attribution (name…
Bundle Load Testing with a Project
September 29, 2015If you need to be able to run load tests on a project, but don’t want each developer to have to install something like Siege on their own…
Clear Selectize Control on Dropdown Click
September 16, 2015If you’re using Selectize to power your dropdown menus, you may find yourself wishing that when the user clicks the dropdown menu, the…
Replace Post Meta Query with Taxonomy Query
September 06, 2015In this post, I’ll cover how to replace a post meta query with a taxonomy query. Why, you ask? WordPress’ postmeta database table is not…
Change WordPress Customizer Control Value Programmatically
September 03, 2015Since the WordPress Customizer is built using the Underscore.js and Backbone.js libraries, the values of all the customizer controls are…
Rename Custom Post Type in WordPress
August 28, 2015If you simply want to change how a post type is displayed in the WordPress admin, you can simply change its labels, or use a plugin like…
Set up PHP CodeSniffer in PhpStorm with WordPress Coding Standards
August 11, 2015The steps below cover how to set up PHP CodeSniffer in PhpStorm with WordPress Coding Standards rulesets. This can be very helpful for…
Vagrant Not Reachable After Disconnecting from VPN
July 22, 2015If Vagrant is not reachable after disconnecting from a VPN, first run these commands to bring the interface down, then back up: For a long…
Get Images from Remote Server by Proxy
July 17, 2015If you have the files and database you need to work on a WordPress site locally but not the images and other media, how can you get them…
Get Permalink of Page Outside of The Loop
July 17, 2015Let’s say you have some WordPress code that’s looping through all your posts and outputting some of their data to the webpage. How would you…
Create a Taxonomy Dropdown in WordPress
June 25, 2015In this post, I’ll outline how to create a taxonomy dropdown in WordPress that lets the user choose an option, then reloads the page to only…
Require Post Title for Custom Post Type
June 23, 2015In this post, I’ll outline how to make the post title field required for a custom post type in WordPress. By default, if a user leaves the…
Prepare WordPress Theme for SSL (https)
April 20, 2015Moving your site to SSL is often a great idea for the obvious security purposes, but also for search engine optimization (SEO), since Google…
Force CSS & JS Changes to “go live” Immediately
April 08, 2015To quote Mark Jaquith’s helpful post on this topic: If you update your WordPress theme’s style.css, you may have noticed that you have to…
Separate Trackpad & Mouse Natural Scrolling in Mac OS X
July 15, 2014When using the trackpad on your computer, Apple’s “natural” scrolling feature is pretty great. The content moves in the same direction as…
Remove Custom Post Type Slug from Permalinks
May 28, 2014Remove Custom Post Type Slug from Permalinks in WordPress easily with these two code snippets.
Remove Slug from Custom Post Type
May 28, 2014Remove Slug from Custom Post Type URLs in WordPress