I want to start by saying that I didn’t want to do a Gutenberg vs Beaver Builder comparison, since in their current state I don’t see them as direct competitors. However developing for both tools is different enough I decided to write a comparison between developing for Gutenberg vs Beaver Builder, and why my preference […]
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WordPress Gutenberg Review
I think it’s important to know the history of my experience with WordPress in order to understand the basis for opinions, so this is where I will begin my WordPress Gutenberg review. I had my first real introduction to WordPress in 2012 when I made a site for a client that needed an easy to […]
Using a PHP Framework or Library in WordPress Plugins and Themes
Anyone who has spent a fair amount of time creating WordPress Plugins or Themes has likely also come across the need to package a PHP framework or library inside a plugin or theme. On the surface this is a fairly routine thing to do – simply copy the file into your plugin or theme, or […]
Search WordPress Users by Name
If you run a WordPress site with a large list of users and have ever needed to search for a specific user (from the Users > All Users admin page) there’s a good chance no users were found. The problem is that the default query only searches by nicename (username) and email address. However, if you need to […]
Disable new user invitation for WordPress multisite
For the purposes of this post let’s assume that you’ve setup an instance of WordPress Multisite, there are a handful of sites (termed blogs), you’re the super admin, and there are different administrators per site. What if one of the site administrators wants to add a new user to their site? Easy enough, they can […]
WordPress Menu Anchor
I recently had the need to add a series of anchor links to a WordPress menu that linked to specific sections of a page. I found this to be tedious, since the page URL needed to be hard coded into the custom link menu item and if the page URL was ever updated each anchor needed […]
WordPress Check if a Menu is Empty
While working with WordPress there are times that it can be very useful to check if a menu is empty before outputting markup. One example is for displaying dynamic, custom, menus in a sidebar where you may not want to output any markup if the menu is empty. This is actually the default functionality of […]
WordPress Custom Sectional Menu
WordPress Menus With the release of WordPress 3.0 menus were introduced as a visually editable element within the dashboard, dramatically improving WordPress’ CMS capabilities. However, many large websites require menu systems that are a bit more flexible and dynamic that what the built-in menu system provides. For instance, have you ever needed to create a primary […]
JavaScript Scroll Into View
There are times when you may want to add interactivity to your website based on the scroll position relative to an elements position but don’t want to use yet another jQuery plugin. This can be useful to check to see if an element has scrolled into view. So, below I’ve added a very simple function […]
Running a Development Copy of WordPress Multisite – Update
WordPress Multisite Updates Back in January I wrote a guide which provided details on how to setup a WordPress Multisite environment for Production and Development that both shared the same database. Since then there have been several updates with the WordPress core and I’ve also come up with several fixes for the sunrise.php file, so I thought […]