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Display short URLs in WordPress
Quick tip for the day: display short URLs using native WordPress functionality.
Superbox replace rel with data-rel
At WP-Tao.com, I use jQuery Superbox to display lightbox-style popup images and screenshots. Here is a quick mod used to replace rel attributes with data-rel.
WordPress Get Edited Post ID
Working on my plugin Disable Gutenberg, I needed a way to get the ID of an edited post. Not on the front-end, but on the “Edit Post” screen in the WP Admin Area. Unfortunately WordPress does not provide a built-in core function for handling this, so it’s necessary to roll our own solution.
Private URLs with .htaccess
With WordPress and other publishing software, you can create “private” and “password-protected” posts, but the URL is still going to be discoverable via search engines and visitors. This technique using .htaccess makes the post and URL accessible only to the specified IP addresses.
Site online but can’t access
Here are a few steps to take if a website is online but you are not able to access it.
Add Custom Info to PHP System Log
Here is a quick function for adding custom information to the system log via PHP.
Note about date and time
Just a quick note about how WordPress handles dates and times.
Display external feeds in WordPress
WordPress makes it so easy to display external RSS feeds anywhere in your theme.
WordPress: Simple Image Upload with jQuery
Some of my free WordPress plugins enable users to select and upload files from their local machine. The uploaded images are handled by WordPress and added to the Media Library. The technique is very basic and easy to implement, requiring only a few snippets added to your WordPress site.
PHP Geo IP Lookup
Here is a nice PHP snippet for GeoIP lookups. As written the script uses api.hostip.info for the lookup service, but that is easily changed as needed (GeoIP lookup services change or go offline constantly). So for what it’s worth, figured it was worth sharing rather than complete and utter deletion. Yes I am a code […]
Triple Loop Navigation
Never thought this was possible, and still don’t know for sure because I haven’t had time to test this code sample found in a pastebin. Included here in its entirety for reference.
CSS Vertical Center Block
Here are two ways to vertically center a block-level element using CSS. The first method uses CSS flexbox, while the second method uses CSS transform.
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