Category: Hacks - Alex Mansfield

Enabling SmartSlider3 Support for the Editor Role

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By default, the SmartSlider3 plugin only allows administrators to create/edit/delete sliders. In many cases, administrators may want to grant editors the ability to manage sliders. To do that, the following code can be placed in the active theme’s functions.php file (or in a plugin). /** * Give editors access to SmartSlider3 * * @see: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/users/roles-and-capabilities/ […]

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WPEngine and the Advanced Cache File

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Today I ran across a strange situation where the dev tools for Chrome and Firefox were reporting different background color values for the same button. They were both reporting that the relevant CSS was in the same location, so it wasn’t a matter of a difference in cascade/priority. I changed the color value in the

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Overcoming the “Cross-Origin Request Blocked” error in PHP

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I was making an AJAX call and was getting a “Cross-Origin Request Blocked” error. It wasn’t clear where this error was originating, so I did a little research and here’s what I came up with. When the server determines that the script making the AJAX request is on a different domain, depending on the server

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Resize Google reCAPTCHA with CSS

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Google’s reCAPTCHA can easily overflow it’s parent at small screen sizes. Let’s fix that. Since the reCAPTCHA sits inside an iframe, we can’t target its individual elements with CSS. We can limit the iframe’s width, but that simply hides any part of the iframe that doesn’t fit within our new width. The code below reduces

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WordPress Audio: Add a Download Button to mediaelement.js

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So I got a call this morning asking how to download an audio file that WordPress was presenting with medialement.js. As you might have noticed, since WordPress started providing an audio player there hasn’t been an easy way to allow audio files to be downloaded as well as played. This has bothered me for a

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WordPress, CDNs, and jQuery

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Last week, Pippin Williamson published a post titled “Why Loading Your Own jQuery is Irresponsible.” This very issues was brought up tonight at the Seattle WordPress meetup, which led to a lively discussion and referenced Pippin’s post. Please, for the love of the WordPress community, just use the version of jQuery bundled in WordPress core…

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