Tag: Php

PHP Array for Font Awesome 4.1.0

I needed to list all of the available icons from Font Awesome 4.1.0 in order to allow users to select one. The code for the selector was easy enough but…

HTML5 Support in WordPress 3.6

For the longest time, I had hooked into the default search and comment form to add HTML5 features for my themes. With the release of WordPress 3.6, a new core…

Trim Characters using PHP

I had previously written about how you can easily trim your text using a build in WordPress function called wp_trim_words() but sometimes you actually want to trim your text to…

Using the Ternary Operator in PHP

It took me a while to actually figure out the name of this type of operator since trying to search “PHP” and “question mark” didn’t really result in anything useful.…

A Better Voting System for WordPress

I published a tutorial quite a while back called Simple Voting for WordPress with PHP and jQuery. It was not without its problems, and recently I needed to improve on…

Convert Hex Color to RGB using PHP

Converting certain values back and forth is often necessary when developing functions to help your website work the way you want it to. I needed a function that would convert…

Count Page Hits in WordPress

This is just a little snippet of code I wrote to count the number of hits on a specific page. I only wanted it to work on single post pages…

Access Another Database in WordPress

When accessing the database in WordPress, you need to use the global variable $wpdb. This will take the constants you set in wp-config.php to connect to your database and retrieve…