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14 November 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
using the now more than famous ACF module, you can a the ACF Leaflet field type that allows to geo code an adress within any post type and easily integrate post map within content. But even better, you can query posts and make an aggregated map, easily !! Yes, Open Street Map ACF field can […]
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21 May 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
While searching for new ways of dealing with custom tailwind css templates within modern CMS, I searched wysiwyg editor news. Components https://editorjs.io has block management, and can convert a block type : imagine you start typing a text and want it to be a header, editor js allows that. Gutenberg does not . https://quilljs.com/ looks […]
4 February 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
I have to admit I'm a few years behind the wordpress news. Just discovering the power of Gutenberg, combined to a dozen free layout and elements plugins, a wonderful world here.
29 January 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Well it sounds official now : we cannot rely on PHP mail's function (or its wordpress extension wp_mail ) to send emails. That's good news because in the case of WordPress like other applications (Prestashop has native SMTP), we can now configure SMTP email sending via free plugins. Most popular is https://wpmailsmtp.com/. It comes free […]
15 January 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Default Gunteberg editor comes with basic layout features, allowing management of blocks within predefined column width, that can be adjusted via the Block options. this is very handy to start with advanced image/ text alignement issues, one thing missing though is the ability to work with responsivness customization. The example below demonstrates the column block, […]
4 January 2024 by erwan | Leave a Comment
WordPress has two functions that you can use to create links to a series or articles sorted by tag (cloud style with wp_tag_cloud ) or category (hierarchical style via wp_list_categories) add a description to your category list using simple walker via wonderful stackexchange threads providing wordpress category list shortcode and walker to add description to category list
17 August 2023 by erwan | Leave a Comment
I have used wordpress event plugins for years, and if i had to continue using one of them I would recommend the very extensive - and not so expensive- tribe calendar plugin, that has a free version of the wordpress plugin directory. I like it because it is full of nice features, and may be […]
20 May 2020 by erwan | Leave a Comment
here we review cost calculator modules for wordpress. TIP : try one of these plugins, then go ahead with gravity forms hacks and code based calculation
12 August 2014 by erwan | Leave a Comment
While comparing wordpress woocommerce with magento, I pointed out the very efficient bulk editing feature for products in magento : it's quite amazing to find out that new versions of wordpress bring features you would not even imagine. Version 2.7 of wordpress, brought to the world in december 2008, brought the famous Batch and inline editing, also […]
5 September 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
this is just the kind of manipulation you'd like automated. there is a very good document on doing SVN with SVNX (equivalent of TortoiseSVN on windows) on mac on this site "zigpress", but if you choose the command line tools option, you might encounter some tricky errors that took me a few hours to solve : […]
12 August 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
There was a time when I was working on multiple solutions, thinking positively that a lot of time spent on each of them would give me a great insight of all possibilities that a mix of solutions could offer. And year after year, solutions evolve and some get better and easier to maintain and develop, […]
5 August 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
we do WordPress developement for developers but also for our final customer, the web site owner. And even with a platform easy to use like WordPress, it can be good to provide basic instructions and written notes for content management. Usually I write specific tutorials for my customers but I have to admit that the […]
13 January 2013 by erwan | Leave a Comment
In this article we will explore a set of code hooks into the worpdress customization framework. The aim of this technique si to hide pdf documents from search engines and non connected users, and to present them with a custom login page if not connected, that would redirect directly to the file download after identification […]
19 October 2011 by erwan | Leave a Comment
The wordpress and prestashop integration is a big subject : prestashop is good for selling products and wordpress is good for dealing with content. One very efficient feature of wordpress is the menu builder that allows you to build unlimited hierachical menus. We submit here a technique that hooks into the wordpress update menu event […]
16 September 2011 by erwan | Leave a Comment
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10 May 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
wpml is a wonderful plugin that has so many it takes a while to get used to its power. A new beta version of the multilingual plugin has been published for early adopters who have already switched to 3.0 What I've tested is interesting and allows quick setting of multilingual website Flag displaying is almost […]
4 May 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
Yes it is possible to host multiple sites for multiple customers with WordPress. The Multi User feature we expected in wordpress 3.0 will satisfy most bloggers only but we need something more specific. The technique I describe here is similar to the one described here in the sense that it directs the database configuration constants to specific […]
12 April 2010 by erwan | Leave a Comment
as of version 3 of WordPress, posts and pages have three options for visibility : What we're looking for today is a solution that hides the post from the list but allows certain users to see it via permalink. Of course you can give the permalink and tell the user to identify via the wp-login […]
2 September 2008 by erwan | Leave a Comment
This article makes a quick comparison of 3 popular PHP Content management Systems : Concrete5, Silverstripe and WordPress. While Concrete5 and Silverstripe are two real content management frameworks, WordPress is hugely popular as a blogging platform and each new version brings new feature that make it perfectly usable as a CMS, provided you install specific plugins such as PageMash. […]