WordPress (23)
WordPress is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress: Check if it’s a Post or a Page
Are you looping through/listing posts and pages or building templates and need to know what’s a post and what’s a page? Here are some possible answers.
How to Add Categories and Tags to Pages in WordPress
Natively, you can categorise and tag your Wordpress posts with the readily available category and tag taxonomies. Learn how to add that same functionality to pages.
Limit the Character Length of the Content or Excerpt in WordPress
You might have some lengthy excerpts or content in some of your posts and pages, which are taking up too much space when listing them on your website. Learn how to limit the length of these when querying WordPress, so you can display a more ‘trimmed down’ list of posts/pages.
How to Validate a URL with PHP
A simple function using PHP and CURL that checks whether a URL is valid or not, by returning true or false.
Check if Category Archive Page has a Specific Parent in WordPress
If you’ve created sub categories in WordPress and want to display bespoke content if your category archive page has a specific parent, then here’s how!
How to Output a Shortcode in your WordPress Theme with PHP
Shortcodes are a great and easy way to output simple (or very sophisticated) content in your posts/pages via plugins or inbuilt WordPress shortcodes, but how would you output this directly in your theme files?Query or Exclude Posts by Custom Field Data
A few examples of how to manipulate WordPress post queries using Custom Fields.
Get the current ID in WordPress
How to retrieve the current ID of an object/item in your WordPress themes using some inbuilt WordPress functions.