Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Customizing WordPress comments

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    The documentation on customizing WordPress comments is a bit sparse, particularly when compared to WordPress posts. I ran into this issue while building a web application built off of WordPress and wanted to use WordPress’ commenting system with some custom fields and styling. So here’s my attempt to address that.

  • A very useful WordPress code snippet to know…

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    Ben
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    As I was working on a custom WordPress theme (based on _s) I found myself trying to get the slug of a post to use as a class for additional styling. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have a get_the_slug() function or a the_slug() function. Well, not built out like that at any rate. The “why not?” is…

  • CPT-onomies

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    WordPress is great at providing a robust system for managing content. However, one of it’s pain points is trying to create a relationship between posts (i.e. post to post relationship). Yes there’s taxonomies but sometimes you really want to tie specific posts to other specific posts. This gets more complicated when you have three (or…