WordPress

There are thousands of Wordpress Plugins available, but unfortunately a lot of them suck. Why? The most common issues that I find are removing/changing some of the Wordpress Core functions and incorrect CSS code that breaks the theme layout. Here are 6 plugins that are absolutely great (each one doing his own job): W3 Total Cache Speed up your website. MailChimp List Subscribe Form Mailing lists, the easy way. Woocommerce…

Did you ever face trouble managing menus on Wordpress? Well, who hasn't? With this small tutorial I should be able to give answer to the most common errors and doubts that arise within this matter. If you understand the connection between menus and their locations and also the importance of the "Screen Options" button you are halfway there. Also as promised on the screencast, XFN™ stands for XHTML Friends Network. It is…

So I decided to add self-hosted video support on my new theme, but I have faced a limitation: I can't upload files with more than 1MB into the Wordpress Media Library. After doing some research here's what I needed to do: a) Because I'm running a multisite installation I had to do this: 1. At the top My Sites>Network Admin 2. At the left Settings>Network Settings 3. Scroll to the bottom of…

One of the most frequent requests on my themes is how to add new fonts to the options panel. I decided to spend some hours with this and I developed a simple plugin. You can grab it here. For now this plugin works only with themes developed by me. If you don't know where to find them, here they are. You can add 3 types of fonts: from the Google…

This is an old request that I get a lot of times on my themes. Usually posts are ordered by date so all you have to do is change their date. This might not be the solution, because sometimes you want to display the correct date on the frontend (and for some reason you want another posts order). If this is the case I recommend this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-order/. Edit*: I…

Wordpress 3.5 is here and those who are using the great Victor Teixeira image resize script some warnings might have appeared on your Wordpress installation. The image_resize function is still working, but deprecated (in favor of the "wp_get_image_editor" function). This means that it should stop working someday. I took a look into the code and found a way to replace the old function. The first thing to do is search…

I ran across a small problem the last days. I needed to obtain image attributes (title and alt) from Wordpress library and send them to the img HTML tag. Once again, something that's supposed to be simple, but took me some time. Here's how to obtain those elements using the image source link: [cc lang="php" tab_size="2" lines="40" width="100%"] //FUNCTION TO GET IMAGE ID FROM SOURCE function get_attachment_id_from_src ($image_src) { global…

Let's start with simple stuff. Well at least apparently... It's incredible how Wordpress is such a powerful tool and sometimes you can't do the simplest things. Here's a small screencast that will show you how to disable comments on any scenario.