So I manage a lot of WordPress sites and all of them suffer from comment spam at some level. What the heck has happened in the past couple of months? Each morning the old inbox is full of emails from the plethora of WordPress sites asking to validate the comments, "is this a genuine comment or is it just junk?" Most of the time - yup it's junk. So I took to the ... [Continue Reading]
Gravity Forms Notifications: route to an email that is stored in a custom field
This is a little snippet that I put together today that I thought would be of interest to others (and me probably in another project soon) Gravity Forms has changed some of the code around notification hooks in 1.7 and higher, there is a new hook "gform_notification" that is used to interrupt and alter the notifications that are being send after a form is filled ... [Continue Reading]
Making WordPress menus with pages and child pages
At the DMA when building WordPress sites, we regularly come across things that we do over again. Building custom menu is certainly one of those things. One of the common requirements we've met is a menu that works with parent and child pages, when a visitor is on a child page the menu should show all of the pages in that section but not others. So recently we've set ... [Continue Reading]
Learning Gravity Forms – a new eBook
Looking for a great way to learn more about Gravity Forms? Perhaps you build sites and need a training resource for your clients to teach them how to use the plugin? Well you're mission on Google is over! Published this week is a new eBook, Learning Gravity Forms. Aimed at beginners who are using the WordPress plugin to build and manage forms on their website, the ... [Continue Reading]
Screen Capture Tool: full size capture of web page
I came across this simple, but brilliant tool this week. It does one thing but does it so well! It's an online tool that allows you to enter a URL and it returns you a PNG file that is a screen capture of the full web site. Really useful if you'd like to send a client a demo of a page etc. Previously I've had a couple of Mac apps that would do this, always love using ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress child themes: how to find the path to the child theme
Usually when you need to reference something inside your theme you can use this WordPress function Which works fine if you're using a standard WordPress theme. However, if you are using a child theme or a framework like Genesis then the above will actually tell you where the parent theme is located, not the location of your child theme. Try this ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress custom post types, URLs and filtering
Almost every WordPress site we build these days has at least one custom post type, some have more than a lot. I came across this post by Seth Stevenson that is a very good resource if you're interested in how to use WordPress URLs to filter custom post types and their archive pages. It starts out showing you how to use URLs ... [Continue Reading]
Genesis Framework: How to show excerpts or full content on archive pages
When using the Genesis theme framework you have the ability to control what is displayed on archive pages from the Genesis settings. This is particularly helpful if you have, in addition to standard pages and posts, one or more custom post types registered. Check the screen shot below. The settings spell out your options. What happens though if you would like one ... [Continue Reading]
Genesis Framework: customise the post info by line
Here's a little trick that allows you to customise the by line of posts, for both the archive pages and the single post. I was searching for a way to do this for a job where the requirement was to remove the author's name but leave the post date and other info. What am I talking about? Here's a screen shot of a customised Genesis theme, in this example the date and ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress 404 and 301 redirects: the easy way
I came across a WordPress plugin this week, when trying to solve a problem for a client, that is simply brilliant. Here's the situation. You've build a new WordPress website and when launching you realise that the old web site, regardless if it was WordPress or not has URLs to content that will not be the same on the new. There is more than one way to solve this. ... [Continue Reading]
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