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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A client needed me to write a script that would collect information from their database and post it to a specific URL, just like it was being submitted by a…
For security reasons, most web servers have PHP errors turned off. This makes sense on live sites since you really wouldn’t want people to see all your root paths if…
This is not a function that you would need to use often, but I came across a reason to use it recently and I thought it might be a good…
When people visit my site and do a search, I assume they’re looking for results within my posts and not in any of my static pages. Too bad WordPress automatically…
