Archive for Wordpress
W3 Total Cache CDN to Local Fallback
The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin is a great solution for speeding up any website. The CDN (content delivery network) option allows you to offload images from your server onto another service, such as Amazon S3. This is a great way to decrease server load and improve the overall performance of your server. However there [...]
WordPress Custom Post Type Permalink not working on 3.5
This was a fun one. I created a custom post type on WordPress 3.5.1 and everything appeared like it should be working. The permalink was displaying correctly underneath the title of the post, however once I hit “View Post” it threw me to a 404 page. The solution was to go to Settings -> Permalinks, [...]
How to Fix Timthumb using a Virtual Directory (URL contains tildes (~))
The timthumb tilde issue has been discussed for almost a year now on the official timthumb site, and the developers have yet to do anything to provide a fix for users in development environments. The issue is that when developers are developing sites using a URL structure such as: http://127.0.0.1/~mysite/images/dog.jpg, timthumb does not correctly parse [...]
Contact Form 7: Get Parameter from URL into Form Plugin
Updated 11/18/2012 There are times when using the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin where I need to pass a parameter from the URL and into a hidden field or display it in the form. This is great for passing things such as order numbers, selected packages, or even security information. Download GetParam Here Installation Copy [...]
BuddyPress Sidebar Links Widget Plugin (v0.92)
While developing a new WordPress site for a client I noticed a need for the ability to easily move around the links bar for BuddyPress. One of the easiest ways to do this was by the creation of a simple widget, that can be moved around to different widget positions in the admin panel. The [...]
WYSIWYG Text Widget Editor for WordPress
I just ran into an excellent plugin for WordPress that should be included with every install. The default WordPress installation offers a basic Text Widget editor that requires HTML knowledge and experience (basically the WordPress editor in ‘Code’ view). When handing off the WordPress installation to clients with little to no HTML experience, it is [...]
WordPress & jQuery: “$ is not a function”
If you are trying to add your own jQuery code to WordPress, and have had the error “$ is not a function” show up on Firebug, here is the fix: Convert all dollar signs ($) to ‘jQuery’ The dollar sign is reserved in WordPress for the Prototype library, which is why it errors out. For [...]
