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Articles, tips, and resources for WordPress-based development.

How To Save WordPress Submenu Page Options

August 4, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’re using functions such as add_menu_page or add_submenu_page to create pages in the WordPress dashboard, it’s pretty easy to get something up and going, but what if you’re looking to actually save WordPress submenu page options?

Submenu Page Options

That is, let’s say you’re creating a page in the dashboard that’s tied to a new menu item – perhaps something that’s being added to the Tools menu – and you want to display some options among some other text or some other element or set of elements that you’re displaying.

It’s completely possible to use the Settings API to do exactly that, but it may also be a little heavy-handed for saving a couple a small set of options.

Luckily, WordPress has a hook that’s available that makes it pretty easy to save information like this that’s completely usable outside of the Settings API.
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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?

Being a Pragmatic Programmer in WordPress

July 30, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I’ve begun to think about as I move through my career in development is what it means to be truly pragmatic about the work that I do.

But first (and no, this is not an affiliate promotion), I think it’s worth noting that The Pragmatic Programmer is a book that I think every person who is a developer of some sort should reading (maybe several times, even). It’s an easy read and brings up a lot of good points as it relates to being the best programmer that you can be as it relates to best practices (whatever that may look like for your slice of the industry).

Anyway, I’ve talked about the tension of having to stay on top of every new technology that’s released as well as the importance of going deep rather than wide as it relates to the work that we’re doing on a day-to-day basis.

TinyMCE and WordPress: Using a Button To Add Content

July 28, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’ve been following along with this series so far, then you know I’ve been working through a series of posts that aims to show how to integrate your own button into the WordPress post editor.

My very own copy TinyMCE Editor. Show spectacular.

My very own copy TinyMCE Editor. So spectacular.

When doing this, we’re specifically working with both TinyMCE and WordPress. That is, we’re writing a TinyMCE plugin that is then wrapped in a WordPress plugin that will then allow the user to click on the button and add their own content (whatever that content may be).

In the next couple of articles, we’re going to take a look at how to do exactly that. First, we’ll start with simply connecting the result of clicking on the TinyMCE button with WordPress and then we’ll look at how to do some more advanced work.

Why Are These WordPress Hooks Firing Twice?

July 27, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

The hook system that’s built into WordPress is great and really powerful once you fully understand now only how the default actions and filters work, but how you can leverage them in your own themes and plugins to have others work for you.

But there’s a problem that comes with this: Other developers can often abuse them. Perhaps they will name a hook like one that already exists, or perhaps they’ll trigger a hook outside of the normal WordPress lifecycle.

When you’re working on building a plugin that’s adhering to the best practices of using a predefined hook and another plugin ends up breaking the usual flow of control, it can be extremely frustrating.

You – or at least I – can literally spend hours trying to isolate and trace down the source of the problem.

Frustrating, right?

Anyway, I’m not in the business of “calling other people out” or identifying problematic plugins on this site (though I don’t mind to discussing one on one), so this post is not about a plugin that’s doing things in a way that I don’t recommend.

Instead, it’s about finding ways to find a solution when you’re faced with a similar problem.