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Creating a WordPress plugin where you need to create templates that can be overridden by the theme? Learn how to build a template loading system similar to WooCommerce allowing you to do just that!
If you’ve ever worked with WooCommerce theming, you’ve probably had to copy some of their templates files to your own theme in order to override the HTML. It’s a great system that allows frontenders the ability to change the output to match designs. In this article, I’ll walk you through how to do just that — easily add WordPress plugin template files.
Just wanna get straight to the code? Click here. Continue reading “Add WordPress Plugin Template Files”
Tired of those standard click ‘n drop menus? Need something with a little more pazazz? Yes & yes! Here’s the answer to your prayers, the jQuery Slider Menu.
Tired of those standard click ‘n drop menus? Need something with a little more pazazz? Yes and yes! Here’s the answer to your prayers, the jQuery Slider Menu based of off the Agile WordPress theme.
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The concept of webfonts, their different versions and how they render differently across different browsers, versions, devices and operating systems can be hard to explain to client. This will make it easy!
“Webfont… what’s that and why do I need them?” Trying to explain to a non-technical client the what, why and which webfonts are needed can be like having a conversation with a 2 year old in the ‘but why?’ stage.
Here’s a quick break down of the 3 W’s to help keep clients from doing a @font-face-palm! Continue reading “What Are Webfonts? — for Clients”
Create Drupal 7 menu links with empty titles! With Drupal’s hook_menu_link and <none>, create icon links & other styled links that have no text.
One of my biggest pet-peeves is creating Drupal 7 empty menu link titles since there’s no out-of-the-box solution. As a result it can be difficult to create stylized links, such as icons or background images. After many frustrating sessions I finally sat down to find a way to make this happen. Consequently, I began to think this was an impossibility and was unable to find a solution already in existence that did exactly what I needed it to do. However, Drupal 7 empty menu link titles are absolutely possible with just this one little snippet! Have no fear, theme_menu_link to the rescue! Continue reading “Drupal 7: Empty Menu Link Titles”
You made the switch from drush to drupal console, but now pulling your hair out because none of the drush commands work using drupal. Spare your follicles and use this list of Drupal 8 console commands.
With the release of Drupal 8 comes the new CLI to generate boilerplate code, interact and debug Drupal (for earlier versions of Drupal, see drush-related coder module tools). The transition from drush to drupal can be a little bit frustrating learning the new commands. To help ease the stress, I’ve put together a list of the most common Drupal 8 Console commands. Continue reading “Drupal 8 Console Commands”
