May 2021 Meetup: Introduction to Custom Field Libraries: Advanced Custom Fields, CMB2, Metabox.io
Topher does a survey of three popular WordPress custom fields libraries and demonstrates code samples.
Jetpack is a plugin offered by WordPress.com, and it contains a variety of services, each of which can be activated or deactivated within Jetpack, depending on what you want to use. One of the features is web site statistics. You create a WordPress.com account and then associate it with your Jetpack plugin. Then Jetpack keeps…
“Hi, you don’t know me, but my friend says you’re really good with web stuff. Someone told me my web site is trying to send them a virus, can you help?” Ever gotten one of those emails? I get one every couple months. There are some excellent documents on how to deal with it here…
Recently I found the need to make a new image size in WordPress, other than the usual “Thumbnail”, “Medium”, “Large”, and “Full”. It’s not very difficult, you simply need to use the function add_image_size in your theme function file, a custom plugin, or an mu-plugins file. It takes 4 options, 3 are required. The first…
I’ve recently discovered the joy of transients in WordPress. You can read about them here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Transients_API. It’s a method of caching bits of information. If you have an object cache on your server like memcache, it’ll store it there, otherwise it stores it in the database. You may wonder why I’d want to store the…
We talked about Retina-Ready WordPress at our Feb. 19, 2015 meetup. Below are the notes. High Density Images Presented by Steve Day Steve’s post Retina Images on GitHub Use Real Favicon Generator to generate favicons for a variety of platforms. Jetpack Photon and WP Retina 2x Presented by Chad Warner Jetpack Photon What it is Jetpack module CDN for images Runs…
Here are notes from our April 2013 meetup about using WordPress as a multimedia platform. Brian Richards gave a preview of WordPress 3.6 and demonstrated how to create image galleries in WordPress. Then Topher DeRosia explained how to manage audio and video in WordPress. WordPress 3.6 preview The post formats UI has been revamped. See…