As a WordPress developer it is a painful (and all too familiar) feeling of angst, when I find a plugin that does almost exactly what I want but the author has left no way for me to modify the behavior without changing their code. Don’t Hack Core (or plugins) A popular refrain in WordPress developer […]
WordPress Add Content to RSS Feed
Recently, I wanted to add content to each item in the RSS feed on a WordPress site. This could be something like: Hire Sal If you enjoyed this article, have you considered hiring Sal to help with your project? To add this, we can leverage the WordPress filter the_content_feed. The code would look something like […]
Skip Dashboard WordPress Plugin
I find I spend very little time on the WordPress dashboard. Additionally, the Dashboard can be confusing for users when all you want to do is write a blog post. Thanks to the power of WordPress filters, we can send users directly to the backend Posts screen on log in and skip the dashboard. We […]
Yoast SEO Eliminate Notifications
I am a huge fan of the WordPress plugin Yoast SEO, however I’m not a big fan of the notifications it includes. Leveraging the power of WordPress filters, we can suppress these messages. The following information is based on Yoast SEO 3.2.3 and may not be accurate for other versions. The Notifications to Eliminate There […]
Migrating Magento Passwords to WordPress
I found this a really interesting problem recently. I wanted to migrate users from Magento to WordPress without forcing them to reset their password. You can’t export passwords for Magento or any well engineered web application, so the interesting part is migrating these passwords without ever knowing what the passwords are. Quick Background for those […]