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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The canonical URL can be modified programmatically in WordPress using the get_canonical_url filter hook. Recently I was working on a site that needed custom canonical URLs on specific search result pages. I went looking for the documentation on filtering the canonical URLs, but while the existence of the filter is documented, I could not find
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It took me quite a bit of research to figure out how to modify the home page query to use a custom post type archive. Here’s what it takes… 1. Set the home page to display a static page On the Settings > Reading page, make sure the “Your homepage displays” option is set to
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The project I was working on today required a custom post type that included a custom taxonomy. Setting this up on the back end was simple. However, when I went to the front end, all the posts in the custom post type were missing from the custom taxonomy archive. Since it took me way too
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