Did you know that with CSS 3 you can load custom true type fonts and use them on your website? It’s relatively simple to do too. First you define a new font face with a URL to your file, then you call it just like you would call a pre-defined font. In this example I’m … Read more
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Super awesome code generator for WordPress Developers by Rami Yushuvaev
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.
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
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
I tested one of my plugins yesterday and was shocked to see a nasty error message: What was going on? I could have sworn this worked fine last time I tried! Then I remembered that I changed my PHP Version in MAMP, from 5.5.3 back to 5.2.17. And exactly therein lies the problem, because the … Read more
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
