For some reason, the default WordPress editing experience hides the dashboard menu. This can be confusing for beginners (“How do I exit the editor?”) and annoying for power users (“Why so many clicks to get to where I want to go?”). Yes, there is a user-configurable option for whether or not to show the dashboard […]
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While it is easy to drop in some code to hide content from search results, it can have some unintended consequences because WordPress uses the same search query loop for both frontend and backend searches. Hide content universally To hide content on both the front and backend, we can use the following code: function prefix_exclude_from_search(
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While it is incredibly useful to use a blueprint site as a starting point for all new website development projects, it also makes it easy to forget what our default site settings are. This article is part checklist, part reminder what default settings I use for reference when create a new blueprint site. Body width
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When pasting text into the WordPress classic editor, the default behavior is to keep the formatting of the pasted content. The keeps things like links working, but it also keeps font colors, sizes, and other formatting that may be undesirable. To change the default behavior so that by default all formatting is removed, we can
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This post exists primarily for my own future reference. Sometimes I want to disable all comments without using a plugin. The code below borrows heavily (maybe even copies blatantly!) from a couple GitHub repositories I came across a while ago: – https://gist.github.com/mattclements/eab5ef656b2f946c4bfb – https://gist.github.com/alexwoollam/2f4bcd4eb4740eb49562131290248f26 Here’s the code: /** * Disable post type support for comments
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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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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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When creating a dropdown menu in WordPress, often the parent menu item is used simply as a hover point to access the submenu, not as an actual link. When this is the case, we can use the following steps to indicate to the user that these menu items are not to be clicked. 1. Set
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