Snippets

So today I needed to send users on mobile devices to an external URL. That’s easy enough, but the client needed users headed to a different external URL if they were headed to one particular section of the site. In the code below, I use wp_is_mobile to test the browser; if true, then I check…

Once in a while you come across something that is so simple and yet so immensely useful. I needed a simple way to display the contents of a post inside a page template. I’d set up a CPT for “Content Blocks” so that a user could create custom content and I could then display that…

Joe found a problem with Modern Tribe’s Events Manager PRO plugin today. He wanted to change something on a recurring event, but when he tried to save the change, he had a window popup asking if he wanted to change just the one event, or all of them. The problem was that the button wasn’t…

Setting up a new WP site is pretty quick, but it’s still tedious after you’ve done it dozens of times. We’ve been combing the net, looking for ways to make it happen really quickly. Here’s what we have so far:

The site we just built for faithandform.com has a pretty cool slideshow feature on the home page, serving up a portion of the four most recent issues’ cover images and tables of content. But it doesn’t work well at all on small mobile devices, so Joe and I spent some time poking around the tubes…

I tend to use pages or categorized posts to fill widgets on home pages, because it provides users with an easy way to change various areas on their home page or sidebars. Sometimes, though, we don’t want that content to show up in searches. Here’s how to exclude them: