WordPress

Works with Gutenberg.

How to remove the UL and Div containers on the wp_nav_menu() function.

If you’ve forgotten what email and password you used to setup a website (or entered your email wrong, or your website isn’t sending reset password links to you!), you can setup an admin user via FTP using the following function.

When content is set to Password Protected, the word “Protected” appears in front of the title in the content area within loops, and on single Post and Pages.

Disable the default from WordPress version 5.4 that forces fullscreen mode as the default view in Posts, and Pages.

When a user is added to WordPress, their insert image settings have Link To Media set as the default option.

If you’re inundated with blocks that are not being used in your Theme template, and you would would like to hide unused blocks; use the default settings within WordPress core to remove the blocks from the “Add Blocks” option.

Plugins, and Custom Post Types can add to your search results, and this isn’t always easy to adjust. You can edit your Post Type settings to exclude from search, but sometimes you need these items searchable in some areas of your website (like a directory), but not in the general search.

Password Protected items show up in Search Results for logged in Users. This can be confusing when linking to those items for users without accounts.

Restrict access to backend based on user role:

WordPress supports a bunch of different file types already, but working within different industries, and creating online databases / libraries for clients requires the need for the addition of file types that are not supported by WordPress.

Add show_in_rest => true to the array for the custom post type to enable the gutenberg editor, and to the taxonomy to have the item appear in the Gutenberg editor’s sidebar.

Place the below snippet in wp-config.php to prevent your WordPress install from prompting for the username and password for FTP when performing updates.

If you need to add Tags to your Custom Post Type, use the following snippet.

If you’ve run into an error where your site is loading all of your Pages as Blog or Archive.

Working within different loops different ways has it advantages …

I usually use a counter to show show items in a list, but I was recently working with numbered Modules, and needed specific values associated with each Page / Post, so instead I found myself using menu_order.

Add information to enqueue to choose where your scripts and styles load.

Everywhere I’ve checked for this information suggested installing additional plugins to enable support for this feature, or said that it was a lengthy and complicated process … but that is not true.

After converting a non-secure website to use SSL, bookmarked, and cached URLs can still be accessed from user browsers and cause your website to appear broken when the stylesheet does not load in SSL.

I’ve worked with a few membership-based websites, and found this method to be the easiest way to ensure layout customization for different user types:

I think one of the reasons RSS feeds are not as popular (as they should be) is due to the fact that they are not optimized to their full potential.

Add this to wp-config.php if you’re unable to perform updates on your WordPress installation.

First check that your folder permissions are correct, and there are not any plugins installed, or prompts within wp-config.php that will prevent updates or installations from being performed.

Comes in handy if you have items saved in a Plugin’s additional folders that you’d like to only be accessible to your paid / subscribed users.

Handy trick I use to show / hide a content area in a custom layout if there is no content.

if( '' !== get_post()->post_content ) {
// do something
}

Further notes:

If the above fails to work, particularly within the loop, replace get_post with $post.

Source.

If your Custom Post Types are not showing up in your archive.php or category.php templates (even with ‘has_archive’ => true enabled within the register_post_type function), you may need to do some additional theme adjustments!

Htaccess file of compiled sources to block referrer spam and bad bots. Updated regularly, various sources.

The default markup for previous_post_link and next_post_link can be difficult to style and adjust using CSS alone.

Incredibly handy function that I wish I found ages ago!

WordPress natively supports adding the class “parent-pageid-##” to child pages, but does not do so to ancestor pages. Thanks to TechTabby for putting this function together.

Updating your Reading Settings within WordPress affects all templates of your site:

I use Custom Post Types a lot at work, and taxonomies are a great way to help organize and control their display on Category and Custom Template pages.

Re-skinning live sites can be tricky and sometimes unavoidable.

I use the following snipped to target updated versions of stylesheets, headers and footers, and lock them to my user ID so all of the changes are only visible to myself until the theme is ready to launch.

Detect if a product is in the cart and add it by product ID as soon as a visitor is on your website.

Error establishing a database connection is my least favourite error message. There’s so many things that you need to check, and the error itself (imo!), does not provide very much direction.

Adjust the supports array of your Custom Post Type within functions.php to enable Menu Order filtering by adding ‘page-attributes’:

Found a handy function over at WP Beginner that allows you to hide the Toolbar for anyone that does not have Administrator access.

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Here is the code that I’ve been waiting for!! Found here, you can use this to link to the default wp-login.php page using an image, or customize it further to take advantage of the pages generated by plugins like TML.

This is a blanket solution that will help you hide the admin bar for everyone, and save time with having to provide the “hide toolbar” info to all users.

Based off of this entry and modified from this source trail, the below snippet will help you embed featured images and backgrounds, and make child pages inherit them from parents.

WordPress does not natively support uploads for ePub files.  To enable this support, add the following to functions.php

Follow these steps when placing WordPress in a subfolder.

Simple post feed.

Customize your theme further by enabling the ability to show the caption when using the Featured Image.

Adding dynamic slugs to your body class can help enhance the ability to style your theme.

This attribute needs to be fed an array, even if a single item is being called, or it will not function properly

add_action('get_header', 'my_filter_head');

  function my_filter_head() {
    remove_action('wp_head', '_admin_bar_bump_cb');
  }

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