There’s no WordPress function to directly get the current user’s role, so I typically include my own function to serve that purpose, similar to the one below. This function is even more versatile since if you pass a specific user’s ID or User object to it, it will return that user’s role. If you pass nothing to it, […]
Load Template From WordPress Plugin
You can load a template file from your plugin using the template_include filter, with code similar to this: View the code on Gist. If you’re looking for something more robust that checks the child and parent themes before falling back to the plugin template, check out Gamajo Template Loader.
Download a Plugin or Theme from the WordPress Admin Dashboard
Typically, 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 the files to my local machine. However, sometimes I don’t have access to the server for one reason or another, but I DO have the username and password to […]
Display WooThemes Testimonials Avatar before Quote
By default, the WooThemes Testimonials WordPress plugin displays the quote, then the avatar (author’s image), then the attribution (name, title and url). You can use the following filter to display the avatar before the quote: View the code on Gist. You can also change the order of the attribution in relation to the avatar and quote […]
Bundle Load Testing with a Project
If 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 computers in order to run them, you’ve come to the right place. I’ll outline how to bundle load testing functionality with a project. We’ll make use of an […]
Clear Selectize Control on Dropdown Click
If you’re using Selectize to power your dropdown menus, you may find yourself wishing that when the user clicks the dropdown menu, the current value in the control would be cleared, leaving behind only a blinking cursor and the dropdown menu. This would make it very clear that the two options available to them are […]
Replace Post Meta Query with Taxonomy Query
In 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 optimized for queries, so querying for posts based on their post meta like the below is inefficient. View the code on Gist. A much more efficient way to do this is […]
Change WordPress Customizer Control Value Programmatically
Since the WordPress Customizer is built using the Underscore.js and Backbone.js libraries, the values of all the customizer controls are not stored in the DOM, but rather in a discrete model. This means that if you use JavaScript to change the value of a control in the DOM, it will look like it has changed visually, […]
Rename Custom Post Type in WordPress
If 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 this one to do it for you. If on the other hand you need to rename the post type’s slug for some technical reason, then you can follow the […]
Set up PHP CodeSniffer in PhpStorm with WordPress Coding Standards
The steps below cover how to set up PHP CodeSniffer in PhpStorm with WordPress Coding Standards rulesets. This can be very helpful for identifying violations of the WP coding standards as you write code, so you can fix them on-the-spot. This guide assumes you’re on Mac OS X or Linux, are using Vagrant for local […]
Vagrant Not Reachable After Disconnecting from VPN
If Vagrant is not reachable after disconnecting from a VPN, first run these commands to bring the interface down, then back up: sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 down sudo ifconfig vboxnet0 up For a long term solution, consider adding the code below to the Vagrantfile, which will use the host as DNS: config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb| vb.customize [“modifyvm”, :id, […]
Get Images from Remote Server by Proxy
If 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 from the remote server? For small sites, simply downloading the entire wp-content/uploads/ directory may be the easiest and quickest solution. For large sites, however, it’s a much better idea to […]
