by suleski | Apr 9, 2014 | Reference, Technical
Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries. As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar. To get it going, do...
by suleski | Dec 23, 2013 | Reference, Technical
Ever see code like this? function my_special_function() { global $wpdb; $wpdb->get_results( “select * from tbl_blah” ); } There’s a special variable that WordPress sets up called $wpdb. It is a window into the database – something that a...
by suleski | Dec 23, 2013 | Reference, Technical
At the top of the gmail screen is a textbox that acts as a filter against all existing email. Typically, you might use this textbox to search for emails with specific terms found in the body. However, this textbox has a whole lot more to filter against. Here’s...
by suleski | Dec 7, 2013 | Reference, Technical
If you are creating banners for your site, you can create whichever shapes/sizes you wish. But, if you want to put advertisements up supplied by a place like Google’s Adsense, you want to probably follow some sizes that are supported (all listed in pixels and...
by suleski | Nov 8, 2013 | Reference, Technical
Setting up regular expressions in code can sometimes be a pain. Maybe you want to test that your regex is correct before decorating it to meet your language’s needs. Well, there is a useful tool that I’ve used that does just that...
by suleski | Nov 8, 2013 | Reference, Technical
Users are assigned roles. Roles are assigned capabilities. And here is where you can see which roles map to which capabilities: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
