Category: Guide
Disable new user invitation for WordPress multisite
For the purposes of this post let’s assume that you’ve setup an instance of WordPress Multisite, there are a handful of sites (termed blogs), you’re the super admin, and there are different administrators per site. What if one of the site administrators wants to add a new user to their site? Easy enough, they can…
WordPress Custom Sectional Menu
WordPress Menus With the release of WordPress 3.0 menus were introduced as a visually editable element within the dashboard, dramatically improving WordPress’ CMS capabilities. However, many large websites require menu systems that are a bit more flexible and dynamic that what the built-in menu system provides. For instance, have you ever needed to create a primary…
JavaScript Scroll Into View
There are times when you may want to add interactivity to your website based on the scroll position relative to an elements position but don’t want to use yet another jQuery plugin. This can be useful to check to see if an element has scrolled into view. So, below I’ve added a very simple function…
Running a Development Copy of WordPress Multisite – Update
WordPress Multisite Updates Back in January I wrote a guide which provided details on how to setup a WordPress Multisite environment for Production and Development that both shared the same database. Since then there have been several updates with the WordPress core and I’ve also come up with several fixes for the sunrise.php file, so I thought…
Events Manager Custom Event Attributes and Conditionals
The Events Manager plugin for WordPress can be used to build a fantastic event and calendaring system, with countless features and expandability, but there are times that the built in event attributes just aren’t enough. Thankfully the plugin is very developer friendly and allows users to create custom event attributes directly in the dashboard. However,…
Fancybox Position Problem
When it comes to web design and development it’s always nice to be able to use well established libraries and frameworks to speed up development and deployment. JQuery is probably the best example of how a framework can be used to speed up development, and through its success many plugins have been built on top of…
WordPress Custom Post Type Pagination
Looking around the internet it’s easy to find several examples of how you can create WordPress custom post type pagination links using multiple different methods. The problem is many of them require overwriting or modifying the $wp_query global variable, which can break functionality with plugins, themes, or theme widgets. It’s almost always better practice to…