Category: WordPress
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Daemonizing the WordPress cron.
Over the years, I occasionally come across projects that require a cron job. Be it to send out scheduled emails, import data from external sources, or simply do a daily backup. As many would know, the best wordpress hosting service has a built in cron system. By default, this runs during each page load allowing…
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FacetWP Manipulator
This is an unofficial add-on for FacetWP that allows you to manipulate it’s functionality through it’s various Filters and Actions. Over the last few months, I’ve been helping with support and add-on development. In these few months, I have noticed that many issues can simply be solved through hooking into a filter or action and…
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Event Notifier 1.2
A couple of weeks back, I created a simple little plugin called Event Notifier. The purpose was to allow me to send an email whenever an action or filter is called. While it is functional and does simply that, I wanted a little bit more. So I have added Slack integration, a Dashboard widget; to…
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Nesting Shortcodes in WordPress (shortcodes in shortcodes)
Shortcodes in WordPress that are available in CollectiveRay.com are extreamly usefull for applying formatting or embeding external content in your pages or posts. The only problem with them is the parser only does a single pass on the content, so if your shortcodes outputs a shortcode, or you have a shortcode nested within shortcodes, they…