This WordPress function will look for TODO comments in your theme files and organize them on your Admin Dashboard inside of a metabox. Each TODO item can have an optional category and priority associated with it. This will help with your theme development so you don't accidentally forget a TODO item, and allows a team… Read more »
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This is a WordPress Admin Dashboard metabox that detects and organizes important information for developers. The information ranges from basics like server IP address to more advanced things like domain expiration date and registrar. Some information is useful at a glance while others are good for warnings and page speed. This metabox also provides a search… Read more »
WordPress shortcodes allow developers to let authors customize certain aspects of their posts in a controlled way. Since the TinyMCE editor does tend to yield inconsistent results for raw HTML (even when entered in the Text tab), shortcodes are a great way to be sure that code will output as intended when used in the… Read more »
Nebula is a springboard WordPress theme framework for developers. It has tons of custom functionality built-in (like shortcodes, styles, and JS/PHP functions), but unlike other themes the WP Nebula is not meant for the end-user. Wordpress developers will find all source code not obfuscated, so everything may be customized and altered to fit the needs of… Read more »
Add this function to your functions.php to enable an easy way of triggering Google Maps through the Wordpress WYSIWYG content editor. All you need is an API Key which can easily be obtained here. Just paste it in the snippet below and you're off and running! Read more »
Ever need to use Gumby's rows and columns inside the Wordpress WYSIWYG content editor? I've written a collection of shortcodes that will allow you to do this without needing to use the HTML editor and risk losing the work you've done! The provided code should be added to your functions.php file, and the requires that… Read more »
The excerpt function in Wordpress is great when you only want to show a preview of the post and allow users to "Continue Reading" by clicking the link. I've found that it can be limiting when you want to customize the excerpt on an individual basis and not globally. In order to change the "Read… Read more »
Event tracking is an important part of web maintenance. Knowing what words users are copying from your pages is an incredibly useful dimension to know! Essentially, the text people are copying from your website likely contains the most important keywords you should be targeting. Tools like Tynt are available that add your URL to any copied… Read more »
This is a Wordpress plugin that adds advanced load timing to each page. Know exactly what is causing slow (or fast) page loading on every page. It's like doing a lightweight and fast speed test on every page! It does not require any settings and is displayed at the bottom-left of the page. The overall… Read more »
Post Admin Social Stats adds a metabox to each post and page that shows the like/share count from select social networks. A metabox is also added to the Dashboard for likes/shares of the top-level home URL. This plugin is designed to have a small footprint as to not interfere with the front-end of the site. Simply install… Read more »
Chris Blakley is the digital design and development strategist at Pinckney Hugo Group in New York.
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