If you make use of some basic mark-up in your WordPress page content, you may have encountered an issue where <br /> tags are appearing where they shouldn’t and are affecting your theme layout.
To prevent this happening but leave the auto conversion of double line-breaks into paragraph tags, I had a dig into the wpautop function that runs before the content is outputted to the screen. Read More
Whilst making some updates to one of my WordPress plugins earlier today, I discovered an small issue when trying to make use of the dbDelta function.
Although it’s advised you avoid creating tables unless absolutely necessary, it seemed like the correct method to store the data used by this particular plugin. Read More
After receiving numerous requests to allow the SubHeading value in my plugin to be searched when carrying out a default search, I turned my attention to finding a method to achieve this in WordPress 2.9.x.
The plugin stores a custom post meta entry for any post or page that requires a subtitle, in order to append this field to the search query I required the use of two actions. Read More
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