Recently I needed to get a post thumbnail in a WordPress project I was working on where using the function setup_postdata() would not work for me. The has_post_thumbnail() function does not accept any parameters and the_post_thumbnail() only accepts the size and an array of attributes. Checking for the existence of a post thumbnail outside of … →

This is something I have been wanting to do for a while now, but like many, have not had the time. Someone has created a WordPress Plugin boilerplate which gives you a nice little start when creating a WordPress plugin. As anyone who has modified an existing plugin or created their own plugin for WordPress … →

Provided nothing is pushed back, the WordPress JSON REST API plugin is being integrated into the WordPress core and is slated for version 4.1. As WordPress becomes more and more like a PHP application framework, the robustness of WordPress continues to grow. The JSON REST API will be a massive feature that will make creating … →

First time Woocommerce user, long time WP-Ecommerce user. I recently built a store using WordPress to sell some t-shirts online as a work project via my employer which had basic variations, bulk pricing and you pay via Paypal – sounds simple enough right? I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about Woocommerce, … →

Recently on a client WordPress website I needed a simple way to get Vimeo video thumbnails via video ID. I couldn’t find anything readily available or even a snippet, so I created a function that helps out and even has a return or echo option as well.

Wordpress has a genius and at the same time annoying feature that automatically wraps inline elements in “P” tags for you. The nerd that wrote the function “wpautop” forgot to provide us an option to populate the array of defined block level elements in-case we wanted an image or perhaps even a span tag treated … →