Page Detection for Post Types in the Admin Menu
Someone over skype recently asked me: “How do you do page detection for a post type on the various post type admin pages?” After doing some research, I decided the best way was to use the WordPress...
View ArticleWordPress Upgrade Class for Commercial or Client Plugins
If you have a plugin hosted outside of the official WordPress repo (whether commercial or for clients), one issue you’ll inevitably run into is how to utilize automatic upgrades. For my upcoming...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Disallow File Editing on Client Dev Sites
If you’ve ever dealt with clients, you’ve probably also set up development sites to demonstrate plugins and/or themes. One danger before receiving final payment is the person ripping off your code...
View Articlewp_print_r – My favorite debugging function that isn’t included in core
if ( !function_exists( 'wp_print_r' ) ) { function wp_print_r( $args, $die = true ) { $echo = '<pre>' . print_r( $args, true ) . '</pre>'; if ( $die ) die( $echo ); else echo $echo; } }...
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Delete Cron Jobs from WordPress
I recently had the struggle of deleting cron jobs from a site within a Multisite network. None of the delete cron functions seemed to work for me, so I wrote a function to brute-force it. I’m all ears...
View ArticleEasy Lazy Loading Via Ajax
My friend Koop asked me over Twitter if there was an easy lazy-loading technique to load social media icons. Initially he wanted to load the icons over hover, but I talked him into doing it on a page...
View ArticleA Custom the_content Filter
There have been numerous times when I needed the filter capabilities of the_content, but I didn’t want other plugin and/or theme authors to be able to hook into it and add in their own stuff. Here’s a...
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Removing All Dashboard Widgets
Here’s a quick snippet for removing all Dashboard widgets in the admin area. As always, I’m game for a better way – Something about four foreach loops does not strike me as efficient. <?php //...
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