Meta Boxes are boxes that appear on the dashboard and for custom features on edit page/post pages. They can also be used in plugins too. Here’s how to create meta boxes on an admin page that will remember whether you have opened/closed them and the order you have dragged them into. They are relatively easy […]
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Establishing My Heart was created for Andy King’s new worship album of the same name. It features mp3 tasters and Paypal ordering. The background uses the same image as the album cover. The contact form uses Akismet filtering to stop spam messages being sent out.
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Last night we were hacked by Turkish Jihadi’s who replaced our index.php, disabled Akismet and one other plugin. What do you do when that happens? Change your host password and FTP password immediately. Let the host what has happened and ask them to investigate how it happened. We have a plugin called Simple Login Log […]
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If you want your plugin to have a greater reach why not internationalise it – hopefully people will soon start translating it for you! Here’s what to do! Step 1 set up the plugin to load the translation files with this code, changing “your-plugin-name” as needed. //add localisation $my_translator_domain = ‘your-plugin-name’; $my_translator_is_setup = 0; function […]
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Here are the books I read in 2012 – not including fiction 😉 NIV Bible Art of Neighbouring (by Jay Pathak) Handle with prayer (by Charles Stanley) Surprised by the Voice of God (Jack Deere) The Silent Listener Falklands 1982 (Major DJ Thorpe) Straight to the Heart of 1 & 2 Samuel Thinking for a […]
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In the UK – kids believe that Santa Claus or Father Christmas comes with presents to children that have been good. Imagination and make believe are fun elements of any child’s growing up, but it has made Christmas all about spending too much and receiving lots of things. It’s a shame because “Santa Claus” comes […]
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If you want to control what image and content Facebook uses when someone likes a post/page on your WordPress site, then add this snippet to your theme functions.php. Any Facebook likes will then use the featured image from that post or page. A similar thing can be done with Twitter – called Twitter cards – […]
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I’m loving Evernote as a storage and retrieval medium for notes and quotes. You can download the app for most devices here and once installed it will synchronise with your online account. If like me you are just getting started with Evernote, then this ebook Evernote Essentials by Brett Kelly is well worth a look. […]
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Our local radio station KLFM’s secret sound has finally been won at £2790. What we heard on air, every day for months, was only part of the story, part of the whole sound, which made it very hard to guess. KLFM’s hard secret sound! There were hundreds of attempts at answering, all wildly wrong. It […]
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