So you’ve clicked to add a featured image in the new 3.5+ media upload and the first thing you are presented with is the list of your past uploads.
So I have always been clicking the ‘Upload Files’ button and then dragging in my file. I recently discovered you can just drag straight to the Media Library tab. This is fantastic.
Now if it would only stop freezing on periodic occasions.
I created a weather widget! My development career can safely come to an end. I was tired of all the usual weather widgets out there and set out to build my own. I remember seeing weatherrr.net at some point and really enjoyed the clean look of it, so I based my widget after that design.
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We work with a lot of different themes from WooThemes to Elegant Themes to my own WordPress Themes. One thing we always want to optimize when we build our sites is the H1 tag. Unfortunately a lot of these themes don’t give a specific option to edit H1′s on posts and pages. So we end up putting the H1 as the WordPress title and move along. This is a little sloppy and makes the page lists annoyingly hard to find specific pages (especially for our clients).
Which one of the following pages is the homepage and which is the about page?
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Back in 2008 there was a blog entry on how to do this. Throughout the comments of the article were about 15 different versions of how to accomplish getting different single.php templates for different categories. I went through them and combined them into what I feel is the best solution that keeps in tune with other WordPress naming conventions.
First add the function below to your theme functions.php
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Here is a handy function that gets the vine app video thumbnail by extracting it from the Facebook Open Graph tag. This should hold you over until they come out with an open API.
function get_vine_thumbnail( $id )
{
$vine = file_get_contents("http://vine.co/v/{$id}");
preg_match('/property="og:image" content="(.*?)"/', $vine, $matches);
return ($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : false;
}
echo get_vine_thumbnail('bv5ZeQjY352');
You just need to pass in the ID that can be found in the URL: http://vine.co/v/bv5ZeQjY352
