Several versions of WordPress ago, the platform had an annoying problem. While it was great at producing RSS feeds, it was lousy at parsing them. Developers had to rely on third-party RSS feed software or roll their own. Now, though, WordPress has a built in feed-grabbing function that makes it...
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Tag Archives: Wordpress
Displaying links alphabetically in columns
As a developer, I’m often asked to display a dynamic list of links based on page types. For example, a pet store may have a page for each type of pet it sells, and they would like a landing page that automatically displays links to all those pages. I’ve created...
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Customizing the WordPress content editor
Last week I talked about how to customize SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor (RTE). This week I’ll discuss how to do the same for WordPress. WordPress uses a third-party tool called TinyMCE to provide RTE functions on its content editor. It has a fairly robust configuration setup, allowing you to do...
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Add javascript to WordPress admin pages
When creating a WordPress site, there are times when you want to customize the dashboard in ways big and small. For big tweaks, you can override the admin PHP with your own code. But for minor tweaks or user experience enhancements, sometimes all you need to do is add some...
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Creating dynamic HTML e-mail templates in WordPress
WordPress is a good content-management system for many projects. Open-source, robust, with a lot of good out-of-the-box functionality. We use it for smaller sites that don’t need the horsepower or complexity of SharePoint. But while highly functional, the default installation is a bit bare-bones when it comes to presentation. For...
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