If you’ve ever created a custom plugin in WordPress, you should be familiar with the standard plugin header code. The information set in your plugin header is displayed under the Plugins admin menu in WordPress shown below: There is a lesser known piece of information that can be defined in your plugin header that tells […]
When developing custom themes and plugins for WordPress there are times you will need to get the logged in user’s ID. There are a few different ways to accomplish this, but I’m going to show you the easiest method. To get the user’s ID you’ll use the get_current_user_id() function like so: The get_current_user_id() function will […]
Recently I had a client request that we block BMP files from being an allowed file type for uploads in WordPress. As always WordPress provides a very simple way to set what file extensions are allowed to be uploaded. To do this we’ll use the upload_mimes action filter. Add the below code example to your […]
Gravity Forms is an extremely popular contact form plugin for WordPress. One of the reasons Gravity Forms is so popular is the ease in which you can customize it. Much like WordPress, Gravity Forms features various action and filter hooks for developers to use to easily tweak how GF functions. Working on a client site […]
The other day I was working on a plugin for a client when I needed to add a link to the WordPress Multisite Network Admin Sites list. This is the list of sites in your WordPress Multisite network. The links I am referring to are the action links that appear when you hover over a […]
One challenge in WordPress is saving meta data on a taxonomy. For instance imagine you want to save additional data on a category or tag. Currently there is no wp_termmeta database table to store taxonomy meta data. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to save a single ID against every category in […]
One of the great things about working with WordPress on a daily basis is I get to figure out how to do all sorts of fun things in WordPress! The latest challenge was figuring out how to setup Facebook like username URLs in WordPress. For example I wanted http://example.com/username to load the Author’s profile page. […]
A few days ago I came across an interesting challenge in WordPress. I wanted to hide some of the default profile fields from being displayed to the users in WordPress. Specifically I wanted to hide the AIM, Yahoo IM, and Jabber / Google Talk fields. It took a bit of digging but I found the […]
A common question I’ve seen is how can you redirect a user to a specific URL after they login to WordPress. Maybe you want to hide the Admin Dashboard from your users, so redirecting them to the home page after logging in is a great way to do this. Just place the below code in […]
Have you ever needed to hide a specific admin menu from other users in WordPress? Maybe you want to hide the Plugins and Appearance menus to keep your users out of trouble. Just place the below code in your themes functions.php file to hide the Plugins menu from all users except for admin: As another […]
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