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How to change your WordPress URL when installed in a subfolder

October 13, 2013October 12, 2013 by Jay Versluis

Oftentimes people install WordPress in a subdirectory of the main website. One-click installers like to do this. Say your domain is http://example.com, but WordPress lives in http://example.com/wordpress. By default this means that people will have to visit your website at the latter URL.

But what if you want your URL to be http://example.com, without that /wordpress at the end?

No problem I say – let me talk you through it. It may sound scary, but that’s just because we have to do some tweaks to files we don’t normally touch.

How to override a parent function from your Child Theme

July 21, 2015October 11, 2013 by Jay Versluis

When you’re writing a Child Theme you can easily add your own functions to a custom functions.php file. But sometimes you want to replace or remove a function that the original theme provides. Because the Child Theme’s functions.php file is loaded BEFORE the parent’s file, you can’t just define the same function again because it would be … Read more

How to find the directory of your WordPress Theme in PHP

October 9, 2013 by Jay Versluis

To get the directory of the current theme (or child theme) you can use get_stylesheet_directory_uri(). Here’s how to use it. Let’s assume that your WordPress installation lives in http://demo.com, and that your theme is located in a folder named “my-super-theme”. We can assume then that the full URL that points at http://demo.com/wp-content/themes/my-super-theme/ The URL will … Read more

How to change the admin footer bar in WordPress

October 8, 2013 by Jay Versluis

The admin footer bar is the one line of text displayed at the very bottom of your admin interface. By default it reads “Thank you for creating with WordPress” on the left, and shows the current WordPress version on the right. You can however change this if you like. Perhaps you want to provide additional … Read more

How to get a link to a specific WordPress admin page

October 8, 2013 by Jay Versluis

To get a reference to a specific admin page (such as Dashboard), we can use the admin_url(), network_admin_url() or get_admin_url() functions, like so: get_admin_url( ‘index.php’ ); You will need to pass the reference to the page you’d like to display. To find out how, simply click on the menu page in question, then look at … Read more

How to use custom CSS in the WordPress admin interface

October 8, 2013 by Jay Versluis

A bit related to my previous post about using jQuery UI elements in the WordPress admin interface, it’s likely that at some point you want to load your own CSS styles to your plugin or theme’s admin pages. Lucky for us that’s a lot easier that loading JavaScript! Here’s how – works without adding an … Read more

How to use jQuery UI elements in the WordPress admin interface

October 8, 2013October 8, 2013 by Jay Versluis

One thing I’ve been struggling with was to use jQuery UI elements in my plugins, for example jQuery UI Tabs. Even though the libraries are included with WordPress, I couldn’t get them to work. Thanks to Pippin’s Plugins I could figure it out – thanks, Pippin! My initial mistake was the way I created the … Read more

How to hide Menu Options in the WordPress admin interface

October 8, 2013 by Jay Versluis

This is surprisingly easy thanks to a function called remove_menu_page(); To remove the Dashboard item for example, you can use the function like this: // remove Dashboard remove_menu_page(‘index.php’); The parameter is the filename of the item you’d like to hide. To find out what that is, simply hover over the menu options in the admin … Read more

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