is_child() Conditional Function for WordPress
I wrote a little function a while back to Check if a Page is a Child of Another Page in WordPress called is_child(). It used the page ID to…
Year: 2011
Just Updated Magazine Columns Plugin
It has been almost two years since I last updated my Magazine Columns plugin for WordPress, and I guess there were a few outstanding issues that needed to be addressed.…
Helpful Page Functions for WordPress
Over the past month I have been working on a large project that has taken up a lot of my time, but I wanted to quickly share two small functions…
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…
Post to a URL Using cURL and PHP
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…
Jetpack Plugin for WordPress: Soar or Fall?
Automattic.com just released a collection of plugins as one “super-plugin” called Jetpack. As they explained it, the goal was to bring eight of the most requested features available…
Remove the New WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar
I have had to use this little bit of code a few times for multiple clients who didn’t want the new WordPress 3.1 admin bar. All you need to do…
WordPress 3.1: Post Formats
I have been going through my themes and updating them to take advantage of the new post formats in WordPress 3.1. I thought it would be a good idea to…