How to add code to the header in WordPress

WordPress has a hook that lets us add arbitrary HTML code to the <header> tag of a website. Several plugins can be found that accomplish this, but it’s so easy to do that a plugin is often overkill. Here’s how you can execute an arbitrary PHP function using the wp_head hook: // write some text … Read more

How to show a list of all articles in WordPress

There’s a handy function in WordPress called wp_get_archives(). With it we can create a lot of useful output with just a few lines of code. To list all articles ever published on a site, we can do this: This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. … Read more

How to fix the “Occasional White Screen of Death” Error in WordPress

In this video I’ll show you how to fix an odd phenomenon I’d like to call “The Occasional White Screen of Death”. Here’s what happened:

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How to disable JetPack nag messages in the WordPress Admin interface

I really like WordPress, and I really like JetPack. I use the plugin on many client websites, who usually have their own WordPress.com  account, which is necessary to enable the plugin successfully. Most of them however choose not to sign up for a payment plan, which as of 2017 leads to (now rather annoyingly frequent) … Read more

How to use Xcode for C and C++ development

Not only is Xcode an excellent IDE for iOS and macOS apps in both Swift and Objective-C; it does just as fine a job for regular C and C++ code. This includes all the features we know and love, such as code completion, version control, and all the rest of it.

Let’s see how to use Xcode 8.3 for C and C++ development.

A Chinese Version of this article can be found here.

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