Allot of plugin have a function that is triggered when the plugin is activated. This ‘activation’ function allows the plugin to setup itself, e.g. create a custom table or set some options in the options table. This works fine in a ‘normal’ WordPress website, but when you create a new site in a WordPress Network website these plugin activation functions are not triggered. Continue Reading…
Today I’ll explain how to create one of my favourite WordPress features, a widget. Widgets allow WordPress users to add functionality to their website without requiring any coding experience. Before we create our first widget it’s important we understand the way they work.
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When developing a custom theme I love using Roots Theme. One of the reasons I do is because of it’s integration of Twitter’s Bootstrap. The only thing I always change is the menu’s behaviour, I want it to open on mouse over instead of on click.
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When working with WPML the other day I ran into the following issue. I had to redirect the visitor to the preferred language translated page, based on an url. This also ment that at the point of redirecting there no post id yet know.
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When creating WordPress websites for clients I like to remove features that will not be used to prevent confusion and questions. For example, allot of WordPress website I create do not contain a blog and therefore have no ‘Posts’ menu item.
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