While working on my quote generator api, I realized that many of the quotes we had copied and pasted into the custom post had kept some of the special characters. They characters didn’t show up on the WordPress site that included the posts, but they do show up when I try to access them remotely […]
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One of my clients has a handout that she uses in her speaking engagements to help people identify their learning styles. She also had the handout posted on her website. She asked me to make the handout more interactive so that people could get their results tabulated for them online instead of tabulating their own
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On one of my WordPress sites, I have a Gravity Form which uses the Authorize.net Gravity Form add-on for credit card processing. All works well until I try to add in the Gravity Forms Coupons add-on. The coupon add-on seems to work just fine until I make the discounted amount 100%. Actually, the coupon code
I want to get rid of the complete header in my Genesis theme for WordPress. Just takes this one line in my functions.php file:
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Here’s how you can find all users that have a certain metadata value for a specific meta_key. First set an argument array with the specific meta_key and value and operator. In my case, I wanted all users with a member_number equal to ‘xxxxxxx’. The meta_key is ‘member_number’and the meta_value is ‘xxxxxxx’. If both of those
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To customize the credits on a Genesis WordPress theme, you should use the genesis_footer_creds_text filter. To allow the year to change automatically each year use the php code to dynamically pull in the year. Change the 2013 to the year the site was built. Add this code to your functions.php file.
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I want to find the user’s id based on a piece of user metadata that I have. The metadata I have is coming in as part of the url. My url looks something like this: http://example.com/users/wu8shti where ‘wu8shti’ is a member id. Here is how I find the user’s ID: This code should be placed
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In order for me to choose how many quotes I want to display with my random quote generator, I need to be able to pass a variable to the shortcode I built in my last post. I may need 2 or 3 quotes instead of just one quote depending on where my shortcode is used.
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I’d like to show you how to choose a random quote from the quotes custom post type I showed you how to create in this post. In my last post, I showed you how to create a basic WordPress Shortcode. We must first query the database for the custom post type: I add that code
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I want to create a shortcode for my WordPress website so that I can add my random quotes most anywhere on the site. I will explain how I add all the shortcode options and actually perform the search for the random code in later posts. This post will show how to create a basic shortcode.
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