Wordpress

When working on a site, sometimes an a rogue plugin or caching problem can take your whole site offline with little to no indicator as to what caused it. Here are a few places to check if your site breaks....

With a few of my clients, they wanted more than the standard excerpt. They wanted to display a paragraph or two of the post. without echoing out a whole post in an archive or landing page. Now Wordpress has great examples on how to do things similar to this with get_the_excerpt(); and the_excerpt(); .However i wanted to try a new method, using a mix of stand PHP functions and a few Wordpress functions I haven't used before....

Have you ever wanted to add a submenu that didn't link to a page you created? A while back, a client requested a link to a particular view and arrangement of a table in admin area of Wordpress. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a standard function within wordpress used to pair a submenu item, that you could customize, to a parent top level menu....

Font Awesome is a great icon resource and I encourage everybody to give it a try at least once. It's my go to icon set whenever I'm using social media links on a website. One problem people run in to is that from time to time a random icon won't load correctly in Firefox. Here are a few solutions if you notice one or all of your font's aren't working:...

I use Wordpress a lot for the CMS of a site that I'm building or working on. This has come with it's ups and downs.Obviously the ups are way to much larger than the downs for the most part, or we wouldn't use it. However, one of the downfalls of letting someone else do the code is getting rusty, especially with coding websites....