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How to Use a Filter on TinyMCE to Add Buttons
Recently, I was asked to add a button to the visual editor for posts and pages on a WordPress install that would insert the <!–nextpage–> code for article pagination . I had done this before, but wanted to write about it here, since I’d totally forgotten how to do it, and wanted to make sure I had a…
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How to Pass Information from One Page to Another with Forms and JavaScript/jQuery
This is a quick post, just to share something I learned. Recently I got a request to create a simple submit form with a an email input that would direct to another page and take the email address and pre-fill a more complex form with email, name, address, etc. Below is the code I used…
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Getting Post Meta for the WP REST API
My friend and I are working on a little side project. It’s a job posting site for an industry we’re familiar with: ESL jobs around the world. While this project could be seen as “just another job board”, we’re hoping to add some features that will make it fun to use and valuable for schools and recruiters.…
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2017: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Before (or while) reading the below, make you sure you give this a listen: Let’s get down to brass tacks…
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Looking Backwards: 2016 in Review
It’s that time of the year, reviewing what has been done, assessing what was good, discarding what was not, and moving forward in a better situation than I was before. After my theme and goal setting at the end of 2015, I moved into the new year with hope and optimism. This year was very interesting…
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How to Make jQuery’s Dialog Popup Responsive with JavaScript
Lately, I’ve done a few things with the jQuery UI Dialog: In a plugin for making posts and drafts On a site for registration and logging in For playing around with:-) However, out of the box, the popup is not responsive. Since the height and width of the dialog modal are set in JavaScript, I wanted…
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Why Yoast SEO Isn’t Enough to Increase Your Site’s Traffic
I’ve been doing some work for a client, helping her to get her e-commerce products SEO’d and understand a little better about the SEO landscape. She’s using the Yoast SEO plugin (a good choice!), but I want to make sure she (and now you!) know how she can not only make sure her site and products…
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Why WordPress Freelancing?
About 4.5 years ago, my life changed… Affiliate marketing and passive income was all the rage. Who doesn’t want to make money while they sleep? So I gave it a shot, and started building these simple sites on something called WordPress. I started using WordPress simply to get good looking sites up in a couple…
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Genesis and Angular: Adding Routing to Posts and Pages (Part 3)
This is the third post in a three part series on using Genesis and Angular. Part 1 can be read here, and Part 2 can be read here. Routing is part of the magic of web applications, and not something that we really think about when we’re developing WordPress sites since it’s basically taken care…
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Using Angular to Display Content in Genesis Using the WP REST API (Part 2)
This is the second post in a three part series on using Genesis and Angular. Part 1 can be read here, and Part 3 can be read here. In my last post on the subject, we left off with two-way bindings to show that our Angular markup was working in Genesis. That’s great! But we want…