You can get the filename of the page template that the post in the WordPress admin is set to using: $page template = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_wp_page_template’, true ); The function below gets the filename of the page template, then returns true if it matches the desired page template, or false if not.This is useful if you […]
WordPress Hook After Options Page Save
If you want to hook into WordPress when an options page is saved and access the values that were entered, you can use update_option_{$option}. Let’s say for my options page, I added the setting like this: register_setting( km_my_cool_options, km_my_cool_options ); I could then hook into when the options page is saved and access the old & […]
Get the ID of the Main Site in a WordPress Multisite Network
Here’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 switch_to_blog( $blog_id ) to gain access to data from that site, then switching back with restore_current_blog() for example. View the code on Gist. Alternate function for WordPress versions < 4.6.0 For […]
Change featured image title and link text in WordPress
WordPress 4.3+ As of WordPress 4.3, you can set the “Featured Image”, “Set featured image”, “Remove featured image” and “Use as featured image” labels to whatever custom text you’d like to use instead. You can do this when the post type is registered using register_post_type(). Here’s an example of how to to it: View the code on Gist. […]
Set Image Caption via PHP in WordPress
In 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 “Caption” field, but what if you want to update the captions of 100 images? It’d be much more efficient to write some code to handle that for you. As […]
Set Up SSL Locally on VVV/Vagrant WordPress Site
This 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) for local development. cd into the directory where all the .conf files are for your local sites cd ~/vagrant-local/config/nginx-config/sites Create a new “ssl” directory mkdir ssl cd into the new […]
Get Current User’s Role in WordPress
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 […]
