If you’ve ever had some posts on your WordPress blog, you will have noticed that the “Uncategorized” category is displayed with a link to an archive of uncategorized posts. The easiest way to solve this, of course, is to categorize every blog post. But, if you don’t want to for some reason, you can use […]
Hiding the WordPress admin bar on certain pages
There may be times when you would like to hide the WordPress admin bar on certain pages. Maybe the admin bar interferes with the design, for example. This can be especially true for things like pages opening up in a lightbox. Fortunately, it is not too difficult to hide the admin bar on certain pages […]
Conditional Required Contact Form 7 Fields
Sometimes you may want to have a required field in Contact Form 7 only when another form field has a certain value. For example, if someone has an option to choose their preferred method of contact between email and telephone, you’d want to make the email address field or the phone call field required accordingly. […]
Quick WordPress Tip – Upload to a Post Without Switching Tabs
Here is a quick tip for WordPress users out there. When you are adding, say, a Featured Image to a post, you are brought to the Media Library window that includes an “Upload Files” tab. This might lead you to believe that you need to switch to that tab in order to upload a new […]
Adding a target to a WordPress menu item
This is one of those things that is so simple I can’t believe that I didn’t realize it was there. If you need to add a target or a particular class to a WordPress menu item it is built-in. However, these advanced options are not shown by default. But, you can easily make them available […]
Saving changes made in Chrome’s Web Inspector
It is wonderful to be able to use Chrome’s Web Inspector development tools to tweak the CSS of a web page to get elements just right. However, what is the best way to apply these changes to the actual stylesheet? One could, of course, just move these changes by recreating the tweaks to the CSS […]
Using MailCatcher for local mail testing
When developing web applications on your local machine, you will often want to test e-mails. For the longest time, I would use an environmental switch in PHP depending on the domain (for example, I would set different values if the domain was stirrell.second-cup-of-coffee or www.second-cup-of-coffee.com) and include values for email addresses. I had my local […]
Passing PHP variables to JavaScript
I was recently working on a project in CodeIgniter and I was setting numeric variables with constants for things like locations (1 = Maine, 2 = New Hampshire, etc.). This all worked fine but when it came to doing some JavaScript AJAX work I didn’t have access to these constants. One of the advantages to […]
Sublime Text’s Extend Selection to Word in TextMate 2
One of the coolest features of Sublime Text 2, in my opinion, is the ability to use the command, “Extend Selection to Word” with Sublime Text’s multiple cursors. Using this command, one can highlight a word they want to change, select the command (or the key command equivalent) which selects the next instance of the word […]
Changing Posts per Page in WordPress admin
Here’s a quick WordPress tip. One thing that always bugged me about the admin interface is that WordPress shows just 20 posts per page in the admin list leading to a lot of clicking the paging navigation. Well, WordPress allows you to change the number of posts shown per page. Go to the Screen Options […]