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Radius-based Job Search plugin
Employers need a radius-based filter to view applications whose location ZIP Code falls within a radius from main office. An increasing number of sites offer job postings to attract companies and job seekers. Several plugins help developers address this goal, with WP Job Manager with an apparent leading popularity. A reason for its status as […]
Effective business directory layout saves time
Choosing a business directory layout makes a difference. For a business site that wants to attract visitors to its content, deciding on how to present the data is as important as it is difficult. In this article, we present a novel and interesting method of showing categorical information. When presenting data organized in categories, the […]
Add shortcode parameters via dialog using TinyMCE toobar
Have you ever needed to create a dialog for adding shortcodes with parameters in a user friendly way? We created a TinyMCE interface that inserts a shortcode and its arguments via a modal window, helping authors become productive and prevent any errors. Content developers using WordPress frequently enhance the TinyMCE editor with plugins that generate […]
How to compile IMAP with SSL for PHP on OSX – works on MAMP as well
This tutorial is an attempt to alleviate the headaches for all those that need to have IMAP with SSL running on OSX 😃 Needed stuff autoconf openssl libxml2 imap2007 install with brew “brew install imap-uw” OR download from https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/ (the archive without Z at the end ) imap-2007e ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/ To install libxml2, you can use brew: brew install […]
Categorize WordPress Comments in Genesis Framework
TL;DR: If you want to download the FREE comments categories plugin for your own use, click here We have created a new version from scratch that is publicly available as a contribution to the WordPress community. Have you ever needed to categorize comments added to your site? WordPress, our favorite Content Management System (CMS) allows […]
Multisite Create Page on All Sites
Have you ever worked on a multisite with 60+ sites? For projects of this size the deployment is a challenge in itself because you might need to: regenerate the thumbnails on all the 60 sites; Of course, doing it manually is a no go configure a certain page as homepage on all 60 sites if you […]
Gravity Forms Entries Inventory Management
Ever needed to limit the number of entries in a Gravity Form? Like, for booking a given number of places in one shot/submission or buying 3 tickets for an event, etc. Here’s an example: I have a 10 places event Someone comes to the website and buys 3 tickets (in 1 submission) Another one buys […]
Translate Plugin From Child Theme
Ever needed to translate some strings from a plugin so as to be able to further upgrade the main plugin without loosing your translations? I did. This is because there some languages around for which there are no default translations in plugins like WooCommerce Social Login or WooCommerce Bookings. Unfortunately there’s no standard way to […]
Add html comments using newly created user role
I was recently working on a piece of code that will: create as special user role allow that user role to insert HTML comments on posts (specifically we needed images and links) from wp-admin If I was commenting like admin, all was good – the comment with image was getting published. But if instead I […]
Filter Custom Posts by Author in WP-Admin
Need to filter your Custom Post Types in WordPress by Author in WPAdmin? Here’s a handy way to do it by adding a new drop down for filtering: And here’s how it looks like:
Replace comment notification email with Mandrill template
Have you ever needed to replace the default email that WordPress is sending whenever a new comment is added? Recently I did. Here’s how I did it: To get this going you have to: 1) Install and configure WPMandrill plugin 2) Create a new template in your Mandrill account 3) Paste the php code in your […]
Test if Flexslider loaded
Recently I had a mini project for a client and I had to test if Flexslider has been shown on the screen in order to further modify it. Subscribing to the start callback didn’t work because the slider was shown by the theme and not by my code. jQuery(document).ready(…) didn’t work either. The slider was there, […]
