Category: WordPress

You may need to execute JavaScript code conditioned by the css screen size, for example to have different behaviors on mobile devices (for example 480px). This article is a support for the Head and Footer plugin. So, if you need to do something in JavaScript when the screen size is less or equal than 480px, […]

If you need to monitor when a user last accessed the site, maybe to gather stats of active and not active registered users, you can do it very easily in few lines of code. Of course you can attach your code to other hook, like the init hook. Attaching to template_redirect could avoid storing the […]

It may happen you need to disable shotcodes in a post or part of a post, because you’re writing documentation and you need to write shortcode examples and be sure they won’t be executed. Ok, I know, you can use the double square brackets but there were times went I went into trouble with shortcodes. […]

Forums can have a description and you can use it as a presentation offering, maybe, links to other resources, to rules and so on. To have that description displayed in the forum main page, you can code a custom theme part or use an hook. See the latter option. bbPress has the action bbp_template_before_single_forum fired […]

Usually, if you contribute a forum sending a request, you want to know if someone replies. On bbPress you can just activate the notifications on the topic you’re creating. But it comes unchecked by default. And in a world of distracted people, assuming the most of your participant want to know if they set a […]

You may need to disable the subscription to mail notifications connected to a forum. If a forum is really busy and someone, wrongly, subscribe it, she’ll start to receive tons of emails. There is not need to work at the code level to disable the subscription functionality, you can simply hide, with a CSS rule, […]

Pay attention and do not use it improperly. The is_admin() function is NOT to check is the current user is an administrator! I saw this error many times and probably I did it myself years ago. The is_admin() function provided by WordPress as core function is not to check if the current user is an […]