Sorting WordPress Posts Using Surnames
A client recently requested that their ‘Members’ page be sorted by surname and not first name. The lists were generated using the follwing code: <?php$cat_args = array( 'sort_column' =>...
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The excerpt function that is so useful in WordPress posts, does not come as standard on pages. Luckily, the fix is easy. Add the following code to your functions.php file and voila! Excerpts on...
View ArticleWordPress Custom Post Templates
Once you have built a Wordpres custom post, you will often want to style it using it’s own template. I searhed the web for a solution and courtesy of twothirdsdesign, if found the answer. The template...
View ArticleCustom Post Type Archive Pages – WordPress
Need to show your custom post types on your category archive pages? Add this to your functions.php file: add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type'); function query_post_type($query) {...
View ArticleInternal Link Layout Issue
I recently came across an unusual problem when using internal links on a WordPress site. The link in question linked from one page on the site to a specific section on another page of the same site....
View ArticleSpinning Update progress on WordPress pages
Spinning Progress Wheel One of my clients recently informed me that a site that I had built had a problem; when some pages were published or updated, the progress wheel would spin until the browser...
View ArticleBeginner WordPress Theme Development
Last Thursday (28th July 2011) we held the third London WordPress meetup. The meetup is for WordPress users and professionals in London and aims to provide a networking and learning platform. I gave a...
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