I added a simple pop-up to every page of a website but I didn’t want to bother visitors who had already seen it, so I used localStorage to prevent the pop-up from showing again if people closed the pop-up.
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Adding a Block Template to a CPT
If you have a WordPress website with an existing custom post type and you want to add a Gutenberg block template to be used for every new post of this custom post type there are two ways of doing this.
Restricting Access to Content in WP
A few notes on how to restrict access to content in WordPress, both for anonymous visitors and logged-in visitors with a specific user role, by using wp_safe_redirect().
WP Media Library Front-end Gallery
Using a WordPress loop to pull images directly from the WordPress Media Library and displaying them with a shortcode.
A crucial part of filtering the images you want to show from the rest of what is in your media library is done by attaching a taxonomy to the media library items. This has the added benefit of creating the foundation needed to allow for filtering of the gallery on the front end as well.
WP version 5.5
This update has a few changes that make me happy!
What: First and foremost: a simple way to filter archive titles. Yay! Hooray! Tired of
Category: Books
or
Archive: Products
You can change that Category: or Archive:, or any other archive title prefix, to anything you want or remove it altogether.
Taking My WordPress Class Online
Because of the pandemic I too have to start teaching online. I’ve been setting everything up and I’m going to track my progress and findings under the teaching online-tag. This post is about my preparations to make this class available online.
Trying out a new plugin
What: I’m trying out Koko Analytics by Ibericode on this site and on a client’s site. Just two months ago I did a big search on privacy respecting website analytics and couldn’t find anything much of anything that looked promising, especially for potential clients. This looks very promising.
Solving hashes-x.x.x.php missing
I had to clean up a hacked WordPress site recently and one of the steps I took was to scan the entire site with Automattic’s Exploit Scanner.
It needs a hash file for the version of WP you’re scanning and since it hasn’t been updated in 2 years or so, it doesn’t have them. WordPress has had several security updates since, so the plugin doesn’t even have the hash files for older versions of WP. This is easy enough to solve since the plugin itself comes with a hashes-generator.php.
:last-of-type but only if it meets other conditions as well
.gallery-item:nth-of-type(3n+2):last-of-type
I was working on a gallery with rows of 3 items per row for which the markup contained <br> after every third .gallery-item and the CSS used floats. It didn’t look how I wanted it to and needed to change it anyway, so I decided to also get rid of the floats and break-tags and use display: flex instead.
Shortcode & Autop
I have a little WordPress plugin I use on some of my sites and it employs shortcodes. The shortcodes are not self-closing and they are wrapped in more shortcodes. They’re nested shortcodes. Using them looks like this:
[ltabjes talen="Taal Language"][ltab taal="Taal"]
Content
[/ltab][ltab taal="Language"]
More content
[/ltab][/ltabjes]WordPress wraps p-tags around each of these shortcode tags, and adds more p-tags inside the shortcodes, adding more space than is wanted. All those empty p-tags are a drag. The shortcode_unautop function removes the outer paragraph tags, but not the inner ones. I don’t want to remove wpautop altogether because the content in the shortcode might still need it. How to solve this?