Chicks dig blokes with groovy login screens
Or how to customise your WordPress login page.
There are three main features you may want to customise on your WordPress login page, whether it's a finishing touch on a client site, a complete rebrand of WP or just cos you're bored.
- CSS colors, font size etc
- Logo
- Logo link
How to remove the favorite actions menu in WordPress admin
Open your functions.php and hook in filter onto favorite_actions and return an empty array.
- function remove_favorite_actions() {
- }
- add_filter( 'favorite_actions', 'remove_favorite_actions' );
Change “Howdy” text in WordPress admin
The "Howdy admin" text can some times come across a little unprofessional in some WordPress installs. Especially when you are taking the time to rebrand/customise it as a CMS solution. Edit your theme's functions.php and hook in.
- add_filter('admin_user_info_links','howdy_msg');
- function howdy_msg($links) {
- return $links;
- }
[Snippet] Formatting a currency string
The Shopp ecommerce plugin for WordPress has a little annoying "feature" that returns the product price as a string pre-formatted for your region and currency.
I needed to do some maths on the string value, so some hacking was required to remove all the non-alphanumeric-but-not-decimal-points.
Shopp Alternative Google Base Feed
So you're running a Shopp, you're going to need a Google Base Feed to stand a chance of attracting traffic.
I got upset at the amount of hacking required to make the Google Base feed (/shop/feed) work correctly.
Google constantly change the requirements for the products feed and it doesn't seem possible to nicely modify the built in RSS feed for Google.
SEO Title Tags for Shopp
Shopp's default title tags are fine, but get down to some hard core SEO tuning, they simply don't cut it.
Here's some code I lifted and modified from the Shopp forums to make the title tags SEO friendly.
See http://forums.shopplugin.net/topic/customizing-catalog-page-titles-please-help for more info.
I heart MDB2
I recently started a project for a customer, if it's CubeCart, WordPress or BackPress based, its a fairly good bet I'll be using ADOdb - but not any more! I though I'd try PEAR's MDB2. Its just another database abstraction library, but takes a slightly different approach to live. I quite like it.
Installing nginx & PHP-FPM securely on CentOS
I won't go into the reasons why you should install nginx, if you're here, you've already decided.
Here's how I installed nginx and PHP-FPM on CentOS.
“sh: -t: command not found” with PHP cron/command line
Are you getting "sh: -t: command not found" when running a PHP from cron or command line? This usually occurs when your accessing PHP's mail() function with no (compatible) mail server installed on the server.
Here's my CentOS based solution.
[Snippet] Shopp Carousels & Slideshows
Carousels & Slideshows in Shopp can be a little tricky, the documentation isn't 100%.
- <?php
- shopp('catalog', 'onsale-products', 'load=true');
- shopp('category','carousel', 'duration=0&fit=all&imageheight=200&imagewidth=320');
- shopp('catalog','category','reset=true');
- ?>
or
- <?php
- shopp('catalog', 'featured-products', 'load=true');
- shopp('category','carousel', 'duration=0&fit=all&imageheight=200&imagewidth=320');
- shopp('catalog','category','reset=true');
- ?>
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