There comes a time in a website’s life when a landing page is needed. Many times, you can get away with just creating a new page containing the content you want. This works if you don’t mind having your website’s header, menus, and footers included on the page. On a focused marketing campaign many times […]
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Notes on Setting up Scotch-box, PHPStorm, WordPress for Remote PHP Debugging
Final Config BOX 1: Web server with WordPress – Vagrant – linux (Scotch-box) BOX 2: HOST Computer (windows 10)- hosting the vagrant box(BOX 1) and a virtual development box (BOX 2) BOX 3: Virtual Linux development station running Linux Mint and PHPStorm Setup BOX 1 – vagrant Scotch-box Following instructions from scotch.io updated vagrant on […]
Gulping WordPress themes
We use gulp as my task runner. It automates much of the development process. It will watch for changes in the theme files and do the appropriate actions to them: If it’s a change in a javascript file, it will concatenate, minimize, and then deploy to the remote server. If it’s a change in a […]
Using Node.js to reorganize files/images
This was a quick personal project where all my photos from my phone were imported into a single folder. Normally, I want all my photos distributed into folders where the folder name is the date the photos were taken. If it was just a few photos, I’d create the folder manually and then drag the […]
Using MongoDB and Sails.js with a basic one-to-many association
We are playing around with writing a Node.js app. We decided to use the Sailsjs framework around the Express engine. The basic app we are creating will be a basic one where we record ideas. We will use two simple models: idea and user. An idea will be associated with one user and a user […]
Adding Background Video to StudioPress Digital Pro Theme
A client using the StudioPress’s Digital Pro theme wanted to replace the front page background image with a background video. This article goes into some of the code changes we made. Just some quick background: Digital Pro theme is a child theme using the Genesis Framework. The first thing we need to do is determine […]
WordPress and Responsive Images
Using custom fields to create a list of previous projects. When using get_the_post_thumbnail(), it will put in the responsive img tag that includes srcset and sizes attributes. When changing what size that is passed to this function, one gets a different img markup. add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'eth2_front_websites', 13); function eth2_front_websites() { $projects = get_field('projects'); if ($projects) […]
WordPress wp_enqueue_script() vs. wp_register_script()
Looking around for when <scripts> are focused on during the WP process, I found the following action hooks that are registered. // In default-filters.php of WP core add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 1 ); … add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_print_styles', 8 ); add_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_print_head_scripts', 9 ); … add_action( 'wp_footer', 'wp_print_footer_scripts', 20 ); … add_action( 'wp_print_footer_scripts', '_wp_footer_scripts' ); First […]
ACF Security
Since we discovered the Advanced Custom Field (ACF) plugin for WordPress, we’ve been using it in almost all of our WordPress projects. It makes WordPress’s backend so much easier for the end-user to change data. For instance, a client has a ‘meet the team’ page which lists their 20 or so employees. Originally, the team […]
Genesis Basic Template Hooks
There’s even more! Definitely, many many filters, too. Click on the lines with a ‘+’ sign to expand and contract This is a visual tree structure of the how Genesis Framework creates the page focusing on the hooks. The hooks are in bold. Included in the tree are key html markup to show where the […]