Tag: WordPress
This entry is part of my WordPress development series, providing tutorials on specific things you can do in WordPress. Read some more?
Sometimes you may need to have multiple search forms within your website. You can easily call the WordPress function get_search_form() wherever you want your search forms to be. An example of this could be when you have a search input in the header or footer of your website. But then, you may have a search form at the top of your mobile navigation that slides out on mobile devices. Or, there’s one on the Search page of your website as well when there’s no results.
However, if you’re someone (like me) who tries to have valid code (or as close as we get), then this won’t work with the default WordPress search form because it will use the same ID for each one, which won’t validate.
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This entry is part of my WordPress development series, providing tutorials on specific things you can do in WordPress. Read some more?
Continuing on from the previous tutorial where we added custom columns, we are now going to make these columns sortable like the regular default columns in WordPress (such as post/page title and publish date).
For simplicity, we will continue to work in our functions.php file. You can edit this file by going to Appearance > Editor in your WordPress admin panel, or using a text editor with FTP.
From the last tutorial, I have already created my custom columns for my custom post type “Cats”. So first we have to tell WordPress to make our columns sortable using the function add_filter().
// Make columns sortable
add_filter( 'manage_edit-cf_cats_sortable_columns', 'cats_sortable_cols' );
function cats_sortable_cols( $columns ) {
$columns['age'] = 'age';
$columns['toy'] = 'toy';
return $columns;
}
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This entry is part of my WordPress development series, providing tutorials on specific things you can do in WordPress. Read some more?
This tutorial is going to show you how to take the metadata stored in your custom meta box (or boxes) from your custom post type and display it as columns on the browse or “All” page – for my custom post type, that would be the page “Cats”. This is a great way to show some extra information about your custom posts at once without having to go to each individual post. Continuing on from the previous tutorial, I am going to display the age and favourite toy metadata that I stored for my cat Azaezel.
For simplicity, we will continue to work in our functions.php file. You can edit this file by going to Appearance > Editor in your WordPress admin panel, or using a text editor with FTP.
To begin, we first have to create the columns. We do this by using the function add_filter().
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This is the second entry of my WordPress development series, providing tutorials on specific things you can do in WordPress. Stay tuned for more!
This tutorial is going to show you how to add your own Custom Meta Box to your posts, pages, or your own custom post types. Custom meta boxes allow you to save additional information. Continuing on from the previous tutorial, I am going to add a custom meta box to my custom posts type “Cats”, which I will use to save the cat’s age and favourite toy.
For simplicity, we will create our custom meta box in our functions.php file. You can edit this file by going to Appearance > Editor in your WordPress admin panel, or using a text editor with FTP.
To begin, we first have to create the custom meta box. We do this by using a function we have used already, add_action().
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This is the first entry of my WordPress development series, providing tutorials on specific things you can do in WordPress. Stay tuned for more!
I have been working with Custom Post Types recently, so I want to start off the series with them. Custom Post Types are just like Pages and Posts, but you can call them whatever you like. They can be used for a variety of content such as Events, Bands, a Book database, Cars, Recipes… if you can think of it, it can probably be a Custom Post Type! They are handy because you can separate them from your regular blog Posts, they can be integrated into your themes and plugins, and even created just by using functions.php.
For simplicity, we will create our Custom Post Type in our functions.php file. You can edit this file by going to Appearance > Editor in your WordPress admin panel, or using a text editor with FTP. I’m going to be creating a post type called Cats.
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As users of the web, we have to be careful with security and make sure hackers do not get into our bank accounts, emails, and our websites/blogs. Here, I outline some simple things that you can do to make sure your WordPress blog/website isn’t the next one that gets hacked.
The Basics:
Don’t use a simple, short password!
This is probably one of the most simplest things you can do to make sure your blog is safe. Using a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols is going to make your password harder to crack – and the more, the merrier! I would recommend using a password no shorter than 8 characters long, and try to make it as long as possible. Most websites allow long passwords, so don’t be shy!
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