Author Archives: Weston Deboer

About Weston Deboer

I like to use wordpress for any and every website that I work on. No matter how big or how small the website is.

Using Custom Fields in Comments

For a private wordpress site I have been using a custom comments table. It just has an added row where people rate the business. Everything is included in the comments table where I don’t need to make a custom table … Continue reading

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Removing first image from the_content

I recently had a client want to put the_title below the first image. Without making it to complicated by adding custom fields or anything like that. I thought that I could grab the first image from the content with catch_that_image … Continue reading

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Add Custom Field to Register Form

this is gonna be a quick one, cause I need to finish website. But I got this working today. This is for function.php file or in a plugin will work. This will add two forms to the register page in … Continue reading

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Why Include a Logout Button?

So I am making a site where users can create an account on this site. It is not an important site where multiple users are going to be using the site, where there is a need for a logout button. … Continue reading

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Check If Logged in WordPress

I put this file just below the header.php in my themes for sites that require the user to be logged in to do anything <?php if (is_user_logged_in()){ echo “Welcome, registered user!”; } else { echo “Welcome, visitor!”; }; ?>

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Page Last Edited By….

I wanted to show when a post was last edited and who it was last edited by. If there s a function for this, I don’t know, but I found this on the wordpress forums and it works great. <?php … Continue reading

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Putting the_content into PHP

With this code you have the ability to remove images or remove the text and only show the images, or a flash embed code, with preg replace or however you want to. <?php $content = get_the_content() ?> Below will remove … Continue reading

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When Upgrading WordPress Always Backup

This happened to me today, And thank the gods I randomly had a backup of the custom theme folder. I had updated some function calls to make it load a bit faster, and I lost those when I decided to … Continue reading

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Idea; Use WordPress as RSVP System

So I had a friend who was looking for a simple to use RSVP system. I spent half today looking into ways to use custom fields as  a way to track names and emails. Thats a good way if you … Continue reading

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Client Tip, Do the small things first

I work with a lot of people and I am not the best person to talk to. I usually work best when the client sends me a list of things to do. So I can just check them off. So … Continue reading

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