Articles tagged wordpress

Notes—very short posts that normally don’t have a title—on this site sport URLs that end in a short, numerical “slug.” Each such slug is generated automatically (with a little help of Optimus), based on the post’s database ID, and thus unique. Continue reading (Seemingly) Random Post Slugs →

Dequeuing a WordPress theme’s Google Fonts stylesheet—the trick we previously used to remove the call to Google’s font-loading service—doesn’t mean we can’t use custom web fonts anymore. In fact, we can simply add a fonts stylesheet of our own. Continue reading Self-Host WordPress “Google Fonts” →

Worried about sending traffic to Google’s servers, for privacy or other reasons? Well, then! Using a really basic child theme—you really shouldn’t modify theme files directly, as your changes won’t survive security and other updates!—let’s remove at least one call to Google Fonts from your WordPress website. Continue reading Remove Google Fonts from a WordPress Theme →

Inspired by the many colorful, Carbon-generated images of source code, I sat down and created Source Snap, a pure PHP Featured Image generator in WordPress plugin form. Continue reading Colorful Source Code Images →

Corcel is a Laravel package that greatly simplifies pulling data from a WordPress database. Using it feels somewhat like—and at the same time completely different from—using WP_Query. One thing I—a rather inexperienced Laravel user—struggled a bit with, though, is fetching posts by Post Format. Here’s how it’s done. Continue reading WordPress Post Formats in Corcel →

What if you wanted to use Jetpack’s social menu feature and add links to your Mastodon and Pixelfed profiles—platforms Jetpack’s social menu doesn’t currently support—and not have them accompanied by an ugly, generic anchor icon? Continue reading Extend Jetpack’s SVG Icons →

Create better URLs for (existing) custom taxonomies, and work around clashing URL rewrite rules. Continue reading Rewrite Jetpack’s Custom Taxonomies →

A few tweaks make a lot of sense when running WordPress headlessly. E.g., without an actual WordPress front end, one may as well get rid of post and page previews. Continue reading Headless WordPress Tweaks →

I’d normally tweak the WooCommerce Product Categories widget—e.g., exclude certain categories—using the ‘woocommerce_product_categories_widget_args’ filter hook. If I want to add something to that list, however, like a link to the top-level shop page, I’ll have to find another way. Continue reading Filter the WooCommerce Product Categories Widget →

Editing WordPress pages, I often float images left or right so that text flows nicely around them. Sometimes, though, I—or my less tech-savvy clients—want the next paragraph to start below the floated image, also if that image happens to be ‘too tall.’ Here’s two possible solutions. Continue reading Clear Floats in WordPress →

Easily disable (or enable) WooCommerce payment methods for a certain payment method, product category or shipping method. Continue reading Conditionally Disable a WooCommerce Payment Method →

On (workarounds for) installing Valet for Linux and the rest of my development environment: PHP 7.2, Composer, MySQL, and WP-CLI, on top of a clean Xubuntu image. Continue reading My WordPress Development Environment →