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Getting Started with Vagrant

Learn how Vagrant, a tool for creating portable development environments, can help you: Easily setup a local development environment Match your local development environment to production and avoid...

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WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcodes are commonplace in WordPress themes, plugins and even WordPress core. Whether you are a new developer looking to implement a shortcode for the first time, or are a seasoned pro; come join us...

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Doing AJAX in WordPress

Preview of presentation: WordPress makes AJAX easy and all too often developers write their own code for handling AJAX. The purpose of this presentation is to walk developers through the process of...

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Reorder Posts in WordPress Programatically

WordPress uses the menu_order column in the posts table to manage the ordering of pages and hierarchical post types. If you have a situation where you need to display a collection of posts in a...

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Loading IE Conditional Stylesheets in WordPress

Most web developers are familiar with the standard IE conditional comments that allow you to load a stylesheet only in Internet Explorer.  For example: Many new WordPress developers / themers tend to...

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WordPress User Login Redirect

WordPress sites that offer personalized or private content typically want to keep their users on the front end of the site.  However, WordPress automatically takes users to the back end dashboard after...

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Replace the WordPress Dashboard

When it comes to customizing the WordPress dashboard, you basically have two options: Customize the widgets that appear on the WordPress dashboard by adding and removing them in the code. Completely...

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The WP_Post Object and Virtual Properties

WordPress 3.5 introduced a lot of changes under the hood. One of the simple things that makes my life much easier is the way that the new WP_Post object allows post meta to be fetched using virtual...

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WordPress User Last Login

Have you ever needed to know a WordPress user last login date?  By default, WordPress doesn’t provide any information on when a user last logged in.  However, such information is extremely useful when,...

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Check If A WordPress Plugin Is Active

If you ever have to write code that is dependent on a specific plugin being active, WordPress has you covered with the is_plugin_active() function. All you need to do is pass in the plugin basename and...

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