Category: WordPress - 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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Disable Clicks on Empty Menu Items

Leave a Comment / CSS, Javascript, Wordpress / By alexmansfield

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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How to Filter Canonical URLs in WordPress

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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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Setting a Custom Post Type Archive as the Home Page

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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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Displaying Custom Post Types in a Custom Taxonomy Archive

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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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Migrating WordPress Multisite to a Local Development Environment

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This post is primarily a reminder to my future self. However, I don’t think I’m alone in this struggle. Migrating WordPress multisite can be quite a challenge, especially if you’re migrating from a live site to a local development environment. If you’re using http://localhost as your local development environment root with individual sites placed in …

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Updating a Plugin in the WordPress.org Repository

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As of this writing, I have only two plugins in the WordPress.org repository. I periodically update these plugins, but not often enough to memorize all the steps required to get things right on the first try. So for my own future reference (and maybe yours as well) here are all the steps laid out in …

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