WordPress Lightning Talks: Jan 2014 meetup

Our January 2014 meetup topic was Lightning Talks: 6-minute WordPress Presentations. Here are notes from the 5 lightning talks.

If I missed anything, please leave a comment, and I’ll add to the post.

Advanced Custom Fields

Chad Warner

• Advanced Custom Fields in WordPress Plugin Directory
  • Description
    • Visually create custom fields.
    • Select from multiple input types (text, textarea, wysiwyg, image, file, page link, post object, relationship, select, checkbox, radio buttons, date picker, true / false, repeater, flexible content, gallery and more to come!).
    • Assign your fields to multiple edit pages (via custom location rules).
  • Documentation at advancedcustomfields.com
• Great when paired with CPTs (custom post types). I use Custom Post Type UI.
• Create field group
• Use field in theme
  • the_field(): Displays the value of the specified field.
  • get_field(): Returns the value of the specified field. You can use it to store a value, echo a value and interact with a value.
• Use field in shortcode

Intro to WordPress Hooks

Brian Richards

Posts 2 Posts

Kurt Hansen

1. Install Posts 2 Posts
2. Register a connection type in functions.php
3. Edit post, find new Connected Pages meta box
4. Click Create connection. Find page.

See Posts 2 Posts plugin wiki for more details.

Reducing login attempts by changing the login URL

Topher DeRosia

Install Rename wp-login.php and use it to change URL to something obscure. Then add code below to .htaccess to deny access to wp-login.php. The code makes it impossible to log in at wp-login.php for everyone. Bots keep trying and get a 403, but humans go to the new login page that you’ve told them about.

<Files wp-login.php>
deny from all
</Files>

Passwordless 2-factor authentication with Clef

Bob Orchard

• What’s Clef?
  • Authenticate to your WordPress site with iOS and Android app instead of password
  • Free
• How do you use it?
  • Create account on Clef website
  • Install iOS or Android app on phone
  • Install Clef WordPress plugin on sites