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Another post in my (seemingly) never ending quest to set up a local development environment. Setup Your local hosts File From Terminal (or iTerm for a much cooler experience), type sudo nano /etc/hosts and enter your password when prompted. At the bottom, add the following two lines.
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127.0.0.1 local.example.com 127.0.0.1 local.example.net |
Save the file (ctrl/cmd + o) and [...]
You think you’re gonna just start up iTerm and type ‘mysql`, right? So did I…
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ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' |
oops….ok, at least I knew enough to think it probably had something to do with MAMP. Google to the rescue! Type this *every* time you want to access MySql using command line when you have MAMP installed.
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/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql --host=localhost -uroot -proot |
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bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( ‘activity’ ) . ‘&per_page=10′ ) |
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add_action('restrict_manage_posts','my_restrict_manage_posts'); function my_restrict_manage_posts() { global $typenow; if ($typenow=='your_custom_post_type'){ $args = array( 'show_option_all' => "Show All Categories", 'taxonomy' => 'your_custom_taxonomy', 'name' => 'your_custom_taxonomy' ); wp_dropdown_categories($args); } } add_action( 'request', 'my_request' ); function my_request($request) { if (is_admin() && $GLOBALS['PHP_SELF'] == '/wp-admin/edit.php' && isset($request['post_type']) && $request['post_type']=='your_custom_post_type') { $request['term'] = get_term($request['your_custom_taxonomy'],'your_custom_taxonomy')->name; } return $request; } |
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// display the first enclosure image if ( $enclosure = $item->get_enclosure(0) ) { if ( preg_match("/^image\//", $enclosure->get_type()) ) { $flist .= ""; $flist .= "<img alt="" src="".$enclosure->get_link()."" />"; if ( $permalink ) $flist .= ''; } } // writes the link $flist .= " |
This code snippet displays the first enclosure in an rss feed.
Back in July I wrote the post Display the Caption For A Featured Image. I did it more as a way to store that snippet of code so it had absolutely no explanation with it. I found the original snippet on Bill Erickson’s site…he has a lot of really good information on WordPress and Genesis in particular. You should check it [...]
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/** Customize Admin Dashboard Area */ function remove_dashboard_widgets(){ global$wp_meta_boxes; unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']); unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']); } add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets'); |
Use this code to display the caption for your featured image. <?php add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); /** Add new image sizes **/ add_image_size(‘featured’, 300, 200, TRUE); add_filter ( ‘genesis_after_post_title’, ‘featured_image’ ); function featured_image () { echo ‘<div class=”featured-image”>’; the_post_thumbnail(); echo ‘<span class=”caption”>’ . get_post( get_post_thumbnail_id() )->post_excerpt . ‘</span>’; echo ‘</div>’;} Related articles 15+ Valuable Code Snippets [...]
Love Genesis but don’t love the lack of creative layouts? Try this: Unregister the default layouts and create your own options. This option replaces the loop with a thumbnail and excerpt of three children pages. Better yet, there’s only 2 steps. Register the layout & Use it in your theme Register the Layout /** * [...]
Create a Page and Use the Blog Template under ‘Page Attributes’ After you’ve done that, scroll down the screen below the post editor and you’ll see a box called “Custom Fields” Add a new custom field, using query_args as the name, and then type cat=1 as the value. (or replace 1 with the category ID you want to use [...]