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Dynamically add items to WordPress menus

Often I find the need to dynamically add items to a menu in WordPress based on the current logged in user, or current post being viewed. After a little looking around, I found that the wp_get_nav_menu_items filter holds the key to this challenge. Read More

WordPress: Add Images to Taxonomy Terms

Relating images to taxonomy terms is a common problem I've run into when building WordPress sites. To do it completely and effectively it requires the use of multiple hooks, and a non-trivial amount of logic. Read More

WordPress: Get taxonomy hierarchy, including children

This function provides a complete hierarchy of taxonomy terms from the given taxonomy using get_terms(), and stores each term's children within an array as the property named children. Read More

Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development

This is a presentation I gave at WordCamp Asheville 2014, meant to teach new developers to create WordPress plugins. It focuses on setting up a new plugin project, and exploring different WordPress hooks. Read More

Remove “Reply To:” from bbPress Reply Titles

bbPress prepends the string "Reply To:" to the beginning of a reply's topic title. This post shows how you can remove that prepended text using bbPress hooks. Read More

bbPress Recent Replies Shortcode

This shortcode provides a simple way to show a list of recent replies on your bbPress forum. It has some arguments for flexibility, and separates logic from display by providing a distinct template function. Read More

Custom Query Wrangler Field

A simple example for adding a custom Field to Query Wrangler as its own plugin. Read More

Widget Wrangler

Widget Wrangler is a full-featured widget management system for Wordpress. Using Wordpress's native WYSIWYG, create your widget content exactly as you want it to appear without having to know HTML or CSS. Read More

Query Wrangler

This plugin provides a user interface for creating WordPress queries (WP_Query), and determining how they will appear. Each query is available as a WordPress widget and a shortcode for easy implementation. Read More