Although I’ve been using Php Storm for a while now I am only just discovering some of the benefits of the IDE. One of these is to be able to apply coding standards to projects where they are lacking. Although there is documentation on the Php Storm site, it doesn’t directly apply to WordPress and …Continue reading
Author: Kirsten Cassidy
WordCamp Europe 2015 in Review- Day Two
There was much anticipation about the schedule for the second day of the conference and it started off with a bang. While some people found day one a bit lacking on the technical front they wouldn’t have felt so today. While the first day offered a lot of theory, the second was much more practical. …Continue reading
WordCamp Europe 2015 in Review- Day One
This is the third year of WordCamp Europe and an event that began with fairly humble beginnings in Leiden has now transformed into something that could eventually rival the bigger WordCamps like Miami and San Francisco. WordCamp Europe was held in Seville Spain at the Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento, a five star venue that provided WordCampers …Continue reading
Translation Basics for WPML- Translating Post and Page Content
This article addresses basics of using WPML for translating a site into multiple languages and is geared towards translators. This article has several parts and in this first part we will be addressing the dynamic content for Posts and Pages. What is WMPL? Very Simply, WPML (WordPress Multi Language) is a plugin for a WordPress …Continue reading
Responsive (and Responsable) Per-page Background Images with WordPress
Full-page Background Images can do a lot to spice up the design of a somewhat minimalist site without detracting from the content being displayed. The problem is that in order for them to look reasonably crisp and professional they are often quite large. There are and should be several precautions when adding any large image …Continue reading
Moving from MAMP to Vagrant for WordPress
Why Vagrant? Over the years I have been a faithful user of MAMP, WAMP, and even XXAMP. As a freelancer, I don’t have much occasion to share my development environment and most of my clients have similar environments- shared servers in the low to mid range using a LAMP stack. I almost always have a …Continue reading
Per Site Plugins for WordPress Multisite
One of the advantages of using a MultiSite in WordPress is that plugins can be shared between sites and enabled on a per site basis. This makes for easier plugin and theme updates for the whole network. But what about cases when you don’t want the plugin to be available for all sites in the …Continue reading
A Plea for Separate Functionality in Niche Themes
The idea of “niche themes” has become very popular in recent years. There are themes geared to doctors, real-estate agencies, restaurants, churches, and just about everything else. To me this seems logical. No one wants to have to research how to best set up a WordPress installation for their “niche.” A law firm, for example, …Continue reading
Allow HTML code in WordPress tagline
Maybe its just me but I always feel like the site description or WordPress tagline begs for some styling. Here’s an easy one to use as an example*: The Future’s Bright. The Future’s orange In order to output the Tagline most themes use the get_bloginfo() function, esc_html( get_bloginfo( ‘description’ ) ) or just get_bloginfo( …Continue reading
Force Download PDF in WordPress
WordPress already enables you to to download PDFs and other file types simply by changing the attachment link in the media library. Like so: But what if you want to force it to download instead of opening it up in another window? This is a quick one now so pay attention. in an .htaccess file: …Continue reading