Show related posts from one CPT to another with ACF Relationships

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Showing related posts from one Custom Post Type to another is possible with an ACF Relationship field. This tutorial uses 2 CPTs, ‘Lights’ and ‘Projects’, the intent is to show the ‘Lights’ used in each ‘Project’ so the reader can…

Change and Update WordPress URLS in Database When Site is Moved to new Host

After migrating a WordPress site to a new URL either to a live production site or a testing development server, the new URL strings in the MySQL database need to be changed and updated in the various MySQL database tables. This…

Adding Multiple Fading Images To A Background with jQuery

You can add multiple sliding/fading images to a background HTML element using the Backstretch jQuery plugin, this is great if you just want to alternate a number of images behind another web page element similar to a slider but without…

Adding a Sticky Footer to Beaver Builder Theme with CSS

A sticky footer refers to a web page footer that sticks to the foot of the page even when there is not a lot of content on the page, without one the footer will ride up leaving the layout somewhat unsightly.  …

Hide WooCommerce Product Categories on Shop Page or other Page

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You can hide certain WooCommerce product categories from the shop page or other targetted pages, by using an action called woocommerce_product_query Add it in your theme via functions.php and it works like so… So the action is wrapped in a…

Installing WordPress wp-cli on macOS

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Installing  wp-cli on macOS – WordPress has a command line tool which operates similar to what Drush does for Drupal, it is called wp-cli and runs on macOS/Linux operating systems with a minimum of PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2 or later. Install wp-cli…

Add Taxonomy Terms as CSS Classes to a Post

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You can use the body_class filter in WordPress to add the Taxonomy Terms of a Custom Taxonomy as CSS classes to a post. The CSS class appears in the body element and is only used if the post has been…

Change the WordPress Post Type name to Something Else

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You can change the default Post type name in WordPress from Posts to something else like News using the get_post_type_object, normal behaviour of the Posts occur, just the label name in the WordPress dashboard has been changed.   add_action( ‘init’, ‘cp_change_post_object’…

Create Shortcode for the Permalink in WordPress

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You can create a shortcode for the permalink in WordPress to use in a string output or more likely as a value for a link attribute, this can be handy if you can’t use PHP in a certain interface. add_shortcode(…

Add Search Icon After Menu using Beaver Themer with the Beaver Theme

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Here’s how you can add a search icon after a menu in a header done in the Beaver Theme using Beaver Themer. Create a Shortcode for the Beaver Builder Search function add_shortcode( ‘bb_search’,’bb_search_shortcode’ ); /* Add Search via shortcode */…