In this post I’ll describe how to create a simple Hello World plugin that gets its content from React. The WordPress plugin will use a shortcode to generate its content from a React App ( the React App is built / bootstrapped using the Create React App cmd line tool ). Prerequisite: I will presume … Read more
In this post I’ll run over how to setup WP-CLI on a Docker web server image ( so you can easily use it todo a Database find and replace , would is handy when you need to migrate a site from one place to another ). This presumes you have PHP setup on the command … Read more
/******* filter posts by tag based on page url ***********/ add_filter(‘widget_posts_args’, ‘wpsites_modify_recent_posts_widget’, 100000); function wpsites_modify_recent_posts_widget($params) { $url = sanitize_text_field($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]); $last_word = basename($url); error_log(“last word = $last_word”); $tags_filter_by = array(‘who’,’what’,’when’,’where’,’why’,’how’); // only do for these pages if(in_array($last_word, $tags_filter_by) ){ //$params[‘tag’] = ‘bread,baking’; posts with any of these tags $params[‘tag’] = trim(strtolower($last_word)); error_log(“filtering to only show posts … 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
WordPress can be a great choice as a company / staff Intranet, but it’s important to first define what features you need. Then to either code the features or choose plugins to use / customise. Being a programmer, I think WordPress is an excellent intranet choice, the WordPress API allows you to customise things to … Read more
Recently I needed to develop a Shortcode that would display a form, this blog post details what I did. I used Ajax ( which seems the best way to add forms to shortcodes, but I’d welcome any input from other developers on your approach). So without further ado lets get on with adding a form to … Read more