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…
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An Even Better Author List in WordPress
I already wrote about this a while back in “How to Display an Author List with Avatars in WordPress” but I recently realized that it needed updating. There’s a better…
Create a Black & White Thumbnail in WordPress
A while back I worked on a site that required a hover effect where a black and white image faded into a color image. I wrote a tutorial called Creating…
Add a Post’s Category Name to Body Class in WordPress
I was working with Digibomb on presswork.me and we needed to add the current post’s category name to the body class in order to style the page differently from the…
Shortcode for HTML5 Video Tag in WordPress
HTML5 has made it a lot easier to include certain elements. Especially videos, since you no longer have to embed them with all those parameters. Here’s a short code snippet…
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…
HTML5 Search Form in WordPress
Some of you may or may not know that I have been working on an HTML5 WordPress framework that was just released called PressWork. We are still squashing some bugs…
Run a Shortcode Anywhere in WordPress
WordPress shortcodes are macro codes that allow you to perform certain actions within the post content. By default they only display on single post pages within the post content. The…
A Better Way to Remove Images from a WordPress Post
I had originally written about Removing Images from a WordPress Post quite a while ago, and while that snippet still works, I recently discovered another way to do it that…
A Problem with the WP Plugin Directory
Some of you may not be aware of this, but there was a small security breach in the WordPress.org plugin directory this week. Someone managed to commit malicious changes to…