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This is a free WordPress Blog consisting of educational and informative articles, as they relate to the WordPress platform. I’ll cover many various topics within the WordPress ecosystem.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite topics in WordPress:
I’ve got to say, I’m very surprised that there’s not currently any kind of native functionality for retrieving the widget settings of a specific widget instance in the WordPress Widget API.
I’ve wrote a rather quick function to do just the trick. Hopefully this helps someone in the need of getting widget settings for a specific widget instance.
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First and foremost, the WordPress plugin Jetpack is a really amazing plugin. They offer so much functionality and neat features for FREE. One of Jetpack’s freebie modules is the “carousel module”. This module basically replaces the core WordPress gallery, especially if you enable Jetpack’s “tiled gallery module”.
I’m currently in love with the mosaic tiled effect that Jetpack has to offer. I use it a lot. However, one of my frustrations is how Jetpack sets the default src of the images to the “full” size image. This would be the original image file you uploaded in your gallery. Continue reading “Set Custom Image Sizes in WordPress Plugin Jetpack Carousel Module”
This is a short post. Simply put it’s essentially just a code snippet. I wanted to manage the site logo through the WordPress Theme Customizer in the WordPress backend administration area of a WordPress website. That way, my users can add/edit/delete images and directly see an instant update in the Theme Customizer Live Preview
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The more you work with WordPress or PHP in general, the more you will begin to make use of callback functions. In WordPress specifically, one of the more common use of callback functions would be with WordPress Hooks. The use of WordPress Actions and WordPress filters allow WordPress Developers to: add, modify, or remove existing functionality within the WordPress ecosystem. In order to do so, you need to attach a callback function to your desired hook. That callback function is responsible for the task at hand.
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My goal here in this tutorial is to teach you how to create a WordPress plugin in a simple and organized way, with a focus on code isolation and consistency. By the time you’ve finished this tutorial, you’ll have a plugin shell created which you can use essentially as a boiler plate template for all of your future plugin ideas.
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