A client recently asked me to change the order of a list of categories displayed in a sidebar. I opened the proper file, located the call to get_terms that collected the terms, and finally visited the Codex to find the proper argument to alter. To my astonishment, there was no way to order the category terms in a user-specified …
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A frequently overlooked enhancement that shipped with WordPress 3.1 has made querying posts by postmeta values significantly simpler. The WordPress core team made this improvement by adding the “meta_query” parameter to the WP_Query class. Previously, you could query and filter posts using a combination of the “meta_key”, “meta_value”, and “meta_compare” parameters; however, this came with …
One feature that makes WordPress a highly flexible and powerful content management system is its implementation of taxonomies. By default, WordPress ships with the “category” and “post_tag” taxonomies. WordPress allows you to set the following metadata for each term in a taxonomy by default: name slug parent description With the implementation of the add_metadata function in WordPress …
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Working with WordPress’ media library and images can be at once and pleasure and pain. I tend to like the manner in which images are managed in the admin; however, I have been left wanting when it comes to using images in the frontend of site. In particular, I have experienced difficulties displaying images at …
Recently, I was working on a plugin that uses a custom post type to create Markers for Google Maps. Since interaction with Google Maps requires use of javascript, I needed to find a way to send post data and postmeta for the posts to be used in javascript to create Google Map Markers. When each …
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