December 20th, 2009 — Tech
Every once in a while I would like to test whether the current page is a descendant of another page. This is particularly useful if you want to display certain content on a subset of your pages only. Although the Codex suggests a similar is_tree function I would like to present an extended version here.
I’ve packaged the functionality inside a WordPress plugin called is_child that you can download here. Unzip it, upload it to wp-content/plugins and activate the plugin.
December 16th, 2009 — Tech
Most themes use the comment_form action which can be used to add arbitrary things to the comment form with a plugin. This post presents a simple plugin that uses custom fields to add special notes to this section.
You can download the plugin here, unzip it, upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it.
November 28th, 2009 — Tech
If you’re using Contact Form 7 for WordPress you might want to protect your forms with a quiz: this is a field where the user has to enter the result of predefined questions. Since we don’t want to annoy the user with a complicated task we’d like to generate very easy to answer questions.
December 22nd, 2008 — Tech
WordPress adds a generator tag at various locations. Basically that’s a good idea because it provides a means to check out the different versions of WordPress that are actively being used in the blogosphere.
