I spend a lot of time working with WordPress, using it for simple blogs and also as a CMS solution for client sites. Some of my most used code snippets and tricks I have listed below.
Get your blog URL
<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>
Linking to an image/file (not from CSS file)
In this case you will need the URL [...]
While developing a registration form for a client I had the following problem:
This form needed to be able to grab multi-record values for one table. In this case I had a form where a person could sign up more than one participant. (Using CakePHP standard form names)
echo $form->input(’Participant.0.first_name’);
echo $form->input(’Participant.0.last_name’);
echo $form->input(’Participant.1.first_name’);
echo $form->input(’Participant.1.last_name’);
CakePHP has a really great [...]
I needed to be able to generate PDFs for a client project and came upon this tutorial for using CakePHP and TCPDF. It turned out I needed to make some tweaks and after gathering info from different Google sources finally got it to work. Thought I’d save someone else the trouble and post my version. [...]
Simple way to check if your WordPress post has an excerpt specified and either show the_excerpt or the_content.
!empty($post->post_excerpt)
Example:
<?php if (!empty($post->post_excerpt)) { ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_content(’<p>Continue reading</p>’); } ?>
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