Author: kathy

A Newbie’s Guide to WordPress Hooks and Functions

How To Add or Remove Anything

When people start wanting to customize WordPress, specifically a theme like Thematic, or a plugin like WooCommerce, I always see questions like: How do I add “something”, “somewhere”? or How do I remove “something” from “somewhere”? or How do I change “something”? At first it is easy to think that adding a div to the […]

How to Use Multiple WYSIWYG (TinyMCE) Visual Editors in Your WordPress Metaboxes

Repeating, sortable, rich-text editors

Ever since WordPress invented the metabox, people have been trying to put the rich text editor (in WP this is provided by TinyMCE) into their metaboxes. And it makes sense. Sure us uber-geeks know the HTML tags required to make some text bold, but most of the world does not. But they do know how […]

Create an Alphabetical Glossary of Posts in WordPress

Order posts in groups my letter

Once up a time i did a client project where i had to have archives organized alphabetically.   I ended up accomplishing by adding a query variable and targeting the posts_where filter.  However, in answering a recent question at WordPress Stack Exchange I decided that it might be neater to create a hidden taxonomy instead.  I […]