CMB2
CMB2 is a metabox, custom fields, and forms library for WordPress that will blow your mind.
story|ftw
story|ftw is a full screen, mobile first storytelling plugin. It can do text, images, gifs, video backgrounds plus a whole lot more.
Loading the Optimal WordPress Object Cache Implementation
On the webdevstudios blog, I wrote about wrangling your object-cache.php file. Check it out.
Posted on April 2, 2015
WP_Error vs PHP Exceptions in WordPress
So today, I instigated a lively discussion on the topic of WP_Error vs PHP Exceptions. I’m curious why try/catch exceptions are rarely used in WP dev? Any insight? — Justin Sternberg (@Jtsternberg) April 2, 2015 A great deal… Read More
Use CMB2 to Create a New Post Submission Form
On the WebDevStudios blog, I wrote a tutorial which provides a pretty in-depth walk-through to demonstrate using CMB2 to create a new post submission form. While the specific implementation is for new posts, the principles in the post can be applied to just about any kind of content in WordPress.
Posted on March 24, 2015
WordPress admin bar tweaks for extremely large networks
WordPress multisite is an awesome tool, but has its limitations and caveats, ESPECIALLY when you’re dealing with very large networks. At WebDevStudios, we use this snippet to prevent the ‘My Sites’ menu from querying every site on the… Read More
Posted on March 1, 2015
Using Class Autoloaders (in WordPress?!)
The other day, I tweeted out that I believe there is hesitancy in the WordPress world to use autoloaders. Don’t believe me? I feel like there’s hesitancy in the WP world w/ autoloaders. spl_autoload_register is your friend. Namespaces… Read More
Posted on December 20, 2014
Host your code snippets in WordPress, and embed them in your content — Enter Code Snippets CPT
Code Snippets CPT is a WordPress plugin for managing and displaying code snippets. It adds a custom post type for managing your code snippets with taxonomies for classifying the snippets. But what’s a snippet if you can’t display it? Syntax… Read More
Posted on August 23, 2014
Sending a server-side (WordPress/PHP) development environment variable to your scripts
This is written for PHP and/or WordPress, but the principle applies to any server-side language. First we’ll we’ll create a php function for determining our environment: This function will return 1 for production, 2 for your staging environment,… Read More
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