Editing the text labels on the WordPress login form and the lost password form is pretty easy. There’s a handy action called gettext that all WordPress translated text for the entire site goes through (whether it’s…
Adding and removing new meta boxes is pretty easy in WordPress thanks to the numerous native functions. The same functions can even be used to change the position of native meta boxes, moving them up, down and into…
If you happened to glance at my previous post about the media_sideload_image function you’ll know that recently I had to manually import a load of content into a WordPress install. A lot of this was done with…
Post revisions in WordPress are great. They give you a huge amount of control over your posts & pages and allow you or your authors to edit at will without having to worry about taking…
Trash in WordPress is great. If you accidentally delete a post or page instead of being permanently deleted it is simply moved to the trash folder where it can be recovered if necessary. By default…
Whenever a new theme gets built for WordPress one of the most important but often over looked aspects is testing. Apart from the standard stuff like embedding images, page headings, tags etc there is also…
When I first hard coded a form into a WordPress page and print_r() the results, all the quotes were escaped. Now, being a reasonably savvy developer at times, my first thought was obviously, “Oh the…
UPDATE: 25 Feb 2017 This has actually become the most popular post on my site over the last few years and recently someone was kind enough to point out that the original code, well mostly working, ignores…