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Get Only Public Post Types In WordPress
Recently I had a situation where I needed to determine if a post type was not one of WordPress’ core types. WordPress has several base post types: Post (Post Type:…
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Transforms Can Be Used to Invert Elements
Earlier this week I was working on styling a website and trying to keep a component as customizable as possible. Within it, I needed the ability to reverse an icon…
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Using Symlinks With Local by Flywheel For Plugin Development
When developing Plugins with Local by Flywheel it’s a good idea to keep the plugin code separate from your WordPress installs. Using symlinks with Local by Flywheel helps keep the…
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Learn SCSS From The Source
When I’m trying to style something using a Mobile First approach, I tend to under-think my SCSS. I don’t know if I just get lazy sometimes or I just get…
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How To Use Local By Flywheel For Local WordPress Development
Local By Flywheel is a Graphical User Interface used for spinning up local WordPress development environments. I use it every single day for my WordPress development projects and I think…
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How To Write Your First WordPress Plugin
After you have been using WordPress for some time, I bet you have some slight modifications you want to make. Maybe changing the title of a specific archive from “Category:…
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How To Back Up Forge WordPress Sites to Amazon S3
I’ve had my personal WordPress site and all of my clients’ sites hosted with Laravel Forge for a little over a year now. If you haven’t heard of Forge yet,…
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How To Develop A Backup Plan For WordPress
Backups are an essential part of any website. What would happen if you woke up one morning and someone hacked your site? Or worse, your web host had dissolved and…
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How to Get Yoast’s Primary Category
Edit: Yoast now has an internal function, yoast_get_primary_term_id(), that provides the primary term for a specific post. Displaying WordPress categories in a theme can be a challenge because a post…
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Efficiently Deleting WordPress Posts Using SQL
For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin for importing a CSV into a few custom post types and taxonomies. I realized that sometimes going “The WordPress…