You might have heard of Mailchimp… who hasn’t these days! Well the same guys have released a rather nice little system called Mandrill (or did earlier this year at least). It is a transactional SMTP relax service with a rather nice little API for those who care. For those that don’t give a monkeys (get it.. monkeys?!) I have a barebones little bit of PHP code for you to use which will effect the sending of your emails. Most sites … Continue reading
Just a quick note to say that my Welcome Email Editor plugin for WordPress has been temporarily withdrawn from the WordPress plugin directory. I need to remove the password reminder feature but otherwise it’s working fine. I am actually on holiday in France until the 14th but when I get home I will make the small functionality change and resubmit it to the directory. I will also find some time in the near future to improve the interface and add … Continue reading
Another quick one from me today. I have written a widget for WordPress that simply allows you to output the content of a specific page (or the current one). Sometimes your design needs you to show page content in an area otherwise designed for different things, this allows you to do that. The widget has optional title with [post_title] shortcode hook and a Page ID option which, when left blank, will use the current page. I refer to Pages but … Continue reading
You have been asking for this so I wrote it for you. This plugin is a very simply way of adding a WYSIWYG controlled tab to your WooCommerce products. It does the legwork for you and all you need to do it edit 1 line in the plugin file to set the tab name and to determine how many tabs you want. I have even provided examples for you in the code. I might eventually add a little admin system … Continue reading
I was inspired by the wonderful work of the WooThemes team when I saw and subsequently used the various features on the custom home pages that come with their theme work. I noticed that often a theme will create a number of custom post types in order to allow the admin to create a number of objects to be used in a specific point within a theme. There is a common system called the Mini Feature. This is really a generic name … Continue reading
Ever wanted to work on a live site or a dev site without version control? I know a bit silly but what 90% of the developing population do. This script will spider your site files and report back any file paths which have been modified in a certain time frame. It means that if you make changes to a site you don’t need to keep a list of files you are editing. Simply run this script when you have finished … Continue reading
Ok so a client of mine wanted to be able to override the header menu on certain pages on their site. I created a plugin which did just that.. and more! WordPress uses Theme Locations to define areas in which a menu can be placed. For instance you might define a location called ‘header’ which is placed into the code at the top of the site. This might form the main nav. It’s also common to have a ‘footer’ menu. … Continue reading
A couple of years ago I wrote a plugin called SB Uploader. I did this because I didn’t like the media library that WordPress used and wanted to setting the featured image within any WordPress post or page simple. Well after a couple of years of development it is now in use by potentially thousands of people (perhaps a tad self indulgent but it has been downloaded a lot and is bundled with a fair few stock and premium themes) … Continue reading
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