Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins Inherit the GPL license

The issue had come up again when over 200 themes were kicked out of the WP theme repository recently, most likely the plugins repo will see the same fait. In a recent meeting Matt’s perspective was clear: If a plugin or theme…

Excluding categories in the_category

This morning I needed to use the the_category tag but I needed to exclude a tag via a category name.

<?php
	//exclude these from displaying
	$exclude = array("Hood Newz");
 
	//set up an empty categorystring
	$catagorystrings = array();
 
	//loop through the categories for this post
	foreach((get_the_category()) as $category)
	{
		//if not in…

Find out if ImageMagick is installed in Linux

Just a simple command I found.

$convert -version

Normally I would use yum but I didn’t have the privileges.

Displaying Category Description from a Slug (category_description)

The WordPress Codex only covers circumstances when you need a category description from an ID or category_name.

Here’s a method for getting a category description based off a slug

<?php
echo category_description(get_category_by_slug('category-slug')->term_id);
?>

Custom Category Pages (in_category and get_cat_id)

I’m currently working on a theme that I need to make custom category pages and single pages. I have a plugin almost ready for re-release but instead I went the template route.

One of the first issues I found, the in_category…

Name your Widgets for WP Theme Development

One of my current projects includes of 6 widgets areas for customization. I wont go into detail of why :). And if you’re either making a theme for yourself or for others it’s always a good idea to be very…

WordPress Gallery [short codes] and custom fields

As a follow up to my recent post on custom fields I ran into another issue revolved around plugins or the built in WordPress gallery codes not working in custom fields.

Since those codes only work inside the post/page’s content a filter needs…

Creating a Page Loop with a Custom Select Query

I hit a roadblock today in one of my projects, it requires a page template that would display a list of pages. Listing posts based on a category is basic with query_posts but I needed to do the same thing for…

How to install and setup postgresql for Fedora/linux

I needed to install postgresql for tiny tiny rss an online rss application I recently found. And I was having problems with the application not connecting to the db after following these instructions.
I scoured the Internet and pieced together what needed to be…

How to backup Plesk

The following procedure makes a complete backup of Plesk. The backup includes the domain and account structures, domain names, email accounts.

1. You would need to log into the server through ssh.

2. Change into a directory were you would like the…