The Customizer is a relatively new way of WordPress Themes to provide you with options. Here is the visuality important, arrange the options directly in frontend for the Theme, play and save the ...
https://wpengineer.com/2527/wordpress-theme-customizer-custom-controls/
Plugins are pretty popular, since it is easy to adjust your blog or website to your liking with Plugins. Less popular are Dropins. WordPress alows to replace some functions with Dropins. The list...
Anyone who works in his WordPress blog with a picture and always wants or need to put one on his post – depending on the layout implementation, might like this small Plugin, which can do the se...
https://wpengineer.com/2460/set-wordpress-featured-image-automatically/
In our first article of this mini series, I explained how to pass with JSON from PHP to JS. Alternativly you can do this with the WordPress function wp_localize_script(), but contains some pitfal...
https://wpengineer.com/2457/wordpress-options-passed-to-javascript-2/
In WordPress you are not always in the PHP world and so you have to pass settings and data from the database to scripts sometimes. In many Plugins you can find solutions in loading the wp-load.ph...
https://wpengineer.com/2315/wordpress-options-passed-to-javascript-1/
Now and then little snippets are pretty useful. For a fix in a Premium-Theme, I needed a kind of evaluation, where I am in the site structure and with little effort I was able to expand the class...
https://wpengineer.com/2440/first-or-last-page-in-page-structures-of-wordpress/
Each time I see someone use strlen() I cringe. It will break. Despite its name, strlen() doesn’t count characters. It counts bytes. In UTF-8 a character may be up to four bytes long. So what ha...
Since the beginning of WordPress the desire to publish the content in different languages is huge. But the topic can quickly become complex, because not only the rendering of content in the form ...
https://wpengineer.com/2389/best-practice-for-multilanguage-wordpress-content-new-plugin/
Once HTML is defined within a function for output, the HTML will be separated from the logic! In this case the function is defined twice. A function contains only logic and values are retur...
The user profile of WordPress can be fairly easily adapted to add your own values. So you can add the necessary fields according to your requirements. Here is how you do it, we add a field ...
https://wpengineer.com/2173/custom-fields-wordpress-user-profile/