WordPress (25)
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: How to Query Posts by Custom Fields
A selection of code snippets that list posts using custom field (meta_value) data.
How to Install Free SSL Certificates on a WordPress Multisite with Multiple Domains
A WordPress Multisite is a fantastic way to manage multiple websites, using the world’s favourite content management system (CMS). However, having one root directory for all of your sites can cause a few headaches when trying to install SSL certificates for each domain on your multisite setup. This article aims to help you do just that.
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?