Category: Notes (Page 16 of 50)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

Expectations If The User Presses Enter

August 11, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

This post is really more of a quick tip than anything else, but if you’re in the business of building web sites or web applications in which users interact with the project and are used to using shortcuts throughout the rest of their applications, then you need to consider the case of what to do if the user presses enter.

If The User Presses Enter

That is, if the end user is using the project you’re working on in order to, say, submit information to the server via a form, then they shouldn’t necessarily have to manually use the mouse (or trackpad) to click on the ‘Submit’ button in order for their information to be transmitted across the wire.

If you’re an experienced web developer, then you’re likely familiar with using JavaScript to handle situations like this, but if you’re new to the business or just new to working with JavaScript then here’s the basics for handling this use case.

Get The Post Type of the Current Post with JavaScript

August 5, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Whenever you need to get the post type for a given post, there are a couple of ways to do this:

If you’re in the dashboard, then you can use `get_current_screen()` and then access the `id` property of the object that’s returned. You can read more about this in the Codex.
If you’re on the front-end (or even in the dashboard, really), you can use `get_post_type`. This is also covered in the Codex.

But what if you want to grab the post type of the post that’s currently being edited on the client-side (read: via JavaScript)?

How To Remove WordPress Meta Boxes

August 3, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Out-of-the-box, the meta boxes that WordPress displays on the dashboard aren’t exactly overkill. I mean, if you’re a blogger, then I think the chances are strong that you’ll need:

Publish
Categories
Tags
Comments
And maybe the Excerpt feature (depending on your theme)

But if you’re building a solution for someone else where that information is irrelevant, wouldn’t it be worth removing the WordPress meta boxes to make the dashboard a little bit cleaner with less irrelevant options?

Adding a TinyMCE Button to WordPress: The Button

July 22, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Throughout this series, I’ve been talking through the process of how go about adding a TinyMCE button to WordPress – specifically, adding a custom button to the post editor.

Up to this point, I’ve covered a number of different things. Namely:

Stubbing out the plugin and adding the JavaScript
Including any dependent files that you may need in order to power your plugin
And how to bootstrap the plugin so that it is able to be activated from within WordPress

The thing is, we haven’t actually made anything happen in the editor let alone even introduce a button into the actual editor yet.

In this post, we’ll do exactly that.

Adding TinyMCE Dependencies in WordPress

July 17, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’ve been following along with previous articles you know that over the last few days I’ve been working through a series on adding a TinyMCE button to WordPress.

Though this post isn’t exactly part of that series, it’s tangentially related and I thought it was something worth covering in case someone else stumbles across their problem in their work or if the code that shows up later in said series shows what’s up but doesn’t do a great job explaining it.

In short, when you have a JavaScript file that is a dependency on the core plugin, there’s another way of adding the dependency that does not include wp_enqueue_script.

Expectations If The User Presses Enter

Get The Post Type of the Current Post with JavaScript

How To Remove WordPress Meta Boxes

Adding a TinyMCE Button to WordPress: The Button

Adding TinyMCE Dependencies in WordPress

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