Category: Web

Tips, tricks and explanations for web tools, standards and emerging technologies.

Wordpess 3.4+, Using Theme Customizer

WordPress 3.4 introduced the Theme Customizer API. An excellent way to include customization options into a theme build. These features are not well documented on the WordPress.org Codex site, but there are several pages online that dig a bit deeper into the options and inner working of the Theme Customizer API. External References: https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Customization_API http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/digging-into-the-theme-customizer-components/… Continue reading Wordpess 3.4+, Using Theme Customizer

Access additional hidden options in WordPress

By visiting http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/options.php (Where yourblog.com is your blog’s url), you can access additional settings and options for fine-tuning your blog. It’s literally called the ‘All Settings’ page, which is a great place to change default settings you normally would have to hack around or download a plugin for.

Verify Your RichSnippets / Schema.org / OpenGraph / Microformats

Another useful tool from Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets A very useful tool for when you’re trying to verify your: Rich Snippets (Google’s name for all types of descriptive meta info.) Schema.org (Google’s backing this one) OpenGraph (Facebook implemented this one) Microformats (The old, but still supported, version)

WordPress Find All Global Details

The following piece of code will help list all objects, arrays and vars in the $GLOBALS variable scope. < ?php foreach($GLOBALS as $glob_key => $glob_val){ echo $glob_key.” – “; echo (is_array($glob_val)||is_object($glob_val))?print_r($glob_val,1):$glob_val; echo “\r\n”; } ?> This can be very useful as there is usually a lot of information stored in $GLOBALS by both WordPress and… Continue reading WordPress Find All Global Details

In WordPress, Replace Text In All Fields

Replacing, Updating, Changing text in WordPress fields is as easy as using the MySQL replace command. Here’s an example for updating the post_title field: update wp_posts set post_title = REPLACE(post_title, ‘Old’, ‘New’) WHERE post_title LIKE ‘%Old%’; This will update all the columns that have the word ‘Old’ in their post_title field with the word ‘New’.… Continue reading In WordPress, Replace Text In All Fields