In this article, we’ll look at some ideas for useful things to have on your intranet and how to use these to help engage your Employees, members or Volunteers. What are the benefits of engaged staff ? Happy workforce ( productive workforce, helps business be more profitable) Low Staff turnover ( saves money in recruitment … Read more
This is to hide the top level tabs from users. Based on this code from the buddypress forums. define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’,’profile’ ); // this shows something if no tabs (otherwise 404) function bpfr_hide_tabs() { if ( bp_is_user() && !is_super_admin() ) { /* and here we remove our stuff ! */ //bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘activity’ ); //bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘friends’ ); … Read more
This code is based on a post from the buddypress forums tested on Buddypress 2.9.2 ( forum states its compatible from BP 2.6+). In this example we remove the Delete tab and also permission so that user can’t try and goto the url to access it. Note there are numerous other examples / versions of … Read more
A place to keep snippets of useful WordPress SQL. Do a select based on some meta field of a post ( i.e. search for a post that has a particular metafield ) SELECT p.ID,p.post_title, MAX(CASE WHEN pm1.meta_key = ‘id_vim_node’ then pm1.meta_value ELSE NULL END) as field_i_want FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta pm1 ON ( … Read more
update: this is a very useful cheatsheet also (with lots of pics to explain) css tricks guide to flexbox Equal width columns (responsive i.e. Rows on small screen width) <div class=”container”> <div ></div> <div ></div> <div ></div> </div> .container { display:flex; } .container div {flex-basis:100%;} @media screen and (max-width:600px) { .container { flex-direction: column; } … Read more
Recently I’ve been developing a WordPress Intranet for a company that runs on Windows hosting ( IIS 6 – Internet Information Services ). I ran into a problem with file permissions and not being able to write to the wp-content/uploads directory, I’ve ran into the same problem with unix many times (which alittle bit of recursive … Read more