How to Add Featured Images to Your WordPress RSS Feed
If you want to add featured images to your WordPress RSS feed (as enclosures), here’s what to do.
John Morris
April 24, 2018
How to Create a Custom WordPress Admin and Login Theme
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a custom admin and login theme for WordPress. Watch the tutorial below: Links mentioned in the video: How to Start a Blog in Less Than 15 Minutes Let me help publicize your blog My web developer resources page with more code snippets. Get the source code for this video as a supporting listener of the John Morris Show on Patreon If you get value from this code snippet, please consider sharing it with another developer or group who could benefit from it.
John Morris
November 12, 2015
Build a Grid Layout For WordPress Using WP_Query
Here’s how to build a grid layout for WordPress via shortcodes and WP_Query: A lot of WordPress developers immediately rush to query_posts in order to create custom loops. But, query_posts is meant for altering the main loop of a WordPress page/post (actually, it’s not even recommended for that anymore). Using get_posts() is okay… but, if you want that real WordPress flavor using WP_Query is the way to go. In the video above, I show you how to use WP_Query to create a custom loop inside WordPress in order to build a Pinterest-style grid layout. Here’s the code I used in
John Morris
July 16, 2015
Force a Single (2, 3, 4…) Column Dashboard Layout in WordPress 3.8
Prior to WordPress 3.8, you had the option to select the number of columns you wanted on your admin dashboard. Personally, I prefer 2. However, in version 3.8… that option is gone. Here’s a handy little code snippet to bring it back: Just change all instances of “2” to the number of columns you’d like your admin dashboard to have and drop the code into your theme’s functions.php file and you’re all set.
John Morris
December 27, 2013
How to Get the Post Thumbnail Source URL in WordPress
Often, when working with WordPress, you’ll find the need to grab a post’s thumbnail source URL. Unfortunately, the_post_thumbnail() and get_the_post_thumbnail() only return the entire image tag. This handy little WordPress code snippet takes care of it for you, though: As you can see, you can post in a $post object or let it use the globalized $post object… depending on your needs. You can also pass in the image size you’re after. By default, it uses the “thumbnail” size. Hopefully, you find it useful.
John Morris
December 25, 2013
How to Add a Login/Logout Link to WordPress Menus
In my last post, I talked about how to add a custom meta box with a custom link to WordPress navigation menus. Several times, I mentioned how I needed to add a specific class to that link for WishList Login 2.0, so that I could find that link later and do stuff with it. This is the part where we “do stuff” with that link. Specifically, we’re going to hook into the navigation menu before it displays, find our link and change its display based on the current user’s login status. Here’s what it looks like: So, if they’re logged
John Morris
March 26, 2013
How to Add a Fully Functional Custom Meta Box to WordPress Navigation Menus
When I created WishList Login 2.0, I wanted to an easy way for users to add a dynamic login/logout link to their navigation menus. As simple as it sounds, it’s not something you can do natively in WordPress and we can requests for this kind of thing all the time. In WishList Login 1.0, I had added an entire admin interface in the plugin settings that had all the necessary options for creating the link, editing its text, setting its position, and so on. Of course, this was before WordPress added menus, so I didn’t have much choice… but, now
John Morris
March 22, 2013
How to Create a Custom Loop in WordPress Using WP_Query
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a custom loop in WordPress using WP_Query. Plus, I’ll explain why you want to use this instead of query_posts when creating custom loops like these.
John Morris
February 11, 2013
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