Exclude Categories from your RSS Feed in WordPress
I had someone ask me how to do this the other day and I didn’t know how. But after reading through some of the WordPress Codex I was able to figure it out. To exclude specific categories from your RSS feed just add the following code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file. function myFeedExcluder($query) { […]
Using :target to Create a Lightbox Effect with CSS3
If you’ve messed around with CSS3 you have probably seen some of the new pseudo classes pop up here and there. An interesting one that I just started to use is :target. A full explanation of what it does can be found on the W3 site but for the purposes of this tutorial, we will […]
Increase Max Upload File Size in WordPress
Sometimes, you need to upload a large file to your site, and the default 8mb limit in WordPress isn’t enough. I attempted to change my limit directly on my server, then in the .htaccess file and then in wp-config.php but neither change worked for me. Then I came across this little snippet by Word Impressed […]
Update to Add Logo to Admin Plugin
I have had a lot of requests to revisit and update my Add Logo to Admin WordPress plugin so today I sat down and went over the code. There have been quite a few changes in WordPress 3.3 so I had to make things a little different but the plugin is now compatible with the […]
Shortcode to Encode Email in WordPress Posts
A while back I wrote a short tutorial entitled “A Clever and Safe Way to Display your Email Address” which explained how you could use CSS to safely display your email on a web page. That way still works well but if you’re using WordPress, you can take advantage of a function called antispambot() to […]
Log in to WordPress using an Email Address
I needed to figure out how to allow a user to use either their username or email address to log into WordPress. It took a bit of rooting around but the final piece of code ended up being pretty simple. function login_with_email_address($username) { $user = get_user_by_email($username); if(!empty($user->user_login)) $username = $user->user_login; return $username; } add_action(‘wp_authenticate’,’login_with_email_address’); Place […]
Introducing Abby
Things have been pretty crazy over the last little while and I thought it would be a good idea to explain why I haven’t been updating the site as much as I should. My wife was pregnant and the home stretch ended up being a bit more demanding than we had hoped for so I […]
Holiday Bundle
The year is almost over and the holidays are coming closer, so I thought it would be a good time to package together some WordPress themes and offer people a great deal. For the month of December, you can now get Magazine Premium, Magazine Flow and Arturo all for only $99.99. That’s a savings of […]
HTML5 Placeholder jQuery Fix
I was working with placeholder text for the input fields on a recent project and I needed to make sure that the text would appear in all browsers. I had to use a old technique that many of you might be familiar with: That technique uses inline JavaScript to check if the value of the […]
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 it for a client, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally release an updated version. The original tutorial relied on an […]