Category: Development
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Mitigating Performance Impact from Personalisation
Caching web pages, especially using a Content Development Network is an important step towards a robust and scalable solution. It is possible to cache multiple versions of a page.
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Modify a Custom Post Type Registration with the registered_post_type Hook
via Use registered_post_type Hook to Modify Post Type Registration – WP Smith.
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Boosting Registration forms
In a recent project we had to make a custom registration form with a various dynamic categories loaded on the form from which a new user can select using a radio button. Simpler Registration Form Plus We discovered the wonderful plugin which is the Swiss-army plugin for registration forms. Why do I call it the…
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Dynamic Menus
There are many good tutorials to build custom menus for logged in/logged out users, see also our own post on the ajax login menu. There are more complex approaches in order to customise the individual menu items using a the wordpress Walker class. An excellent review of a custom walker can be found on the…
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Managing a development and live site
As is often the case when developing a new site for a client you have to work with a beta site to show-case the work to its stakeholders and in parallel deploy updates to a live site. In such a scenario one ideally wants the live site to be searched and indexed by search engines,…
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Managing Dashboard Menus, Sub-menus and Labels
A recent project saw adopt the Vertex Elegant Theme which comes with a pre-built set of custom posts to create diverse content. The theme has 3 built-in custom posts: The requirement from the client is to use the theme for an online magazine. They have a group of editors and authors working on the current…
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WordPress log in / log out menus
One of the downsides of WordPress menus is the inability to have a set of menus for logged-in users that may differ from the primary menu. Many sites tackle this in various ways, but a conventional approach is to have a separate menus to handle the logged-in and logged-out states of the visitor. A menu…