Adding Feature Images to the WordPress RSS Feed
The WordPress RSS feed is great. We use it with third-party services, such as MailChimp. One key datum that isn't…
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How to trim words by character limit
We recently encountered a scenario where the client wanted to trim the news items titles to a maximum number of…
WP Code Tip: get array of post IDs
A number of times over my years developing in WordPress I've needed to extract the post IDs of the posts…
Use PHP’s in_array() to compare a variable to multiple values
When comparing a variable with multiple values consider using in_array(), instead of complex if expressions. I love clean, easy-to-read code,…
How to reindex spotlight on macOS to stop it closing after a few characters
This post is a somewhat off-topic, but for all those of you that are working on Macs, here's a little…
Setting up PHP composer
This article walks through the simple steps for setting up composer. Initially at project level, then, optionally, at the global…
How to fix ansible/vagrant ERROR! the role ‘swapfile’ was not found
This article provides a simple fix for the ansible error, "sorry, tersmitten.swapfile was not found", by updating 1 (maybe 2?)…
How to fix macOS usr/local is not writable
This simple post should fix the "usr/local is not writable" issue with homebrew. Whilst on holiday I needed to use…
How to prevent Yoast from setting noindex on pages
On a few occasions Yoast has inexplicably injected a noindex meta tag in the head of pages that I want…
How to call wp_get_attachment_image() without srcset
Sometimes it's nice to have all the goodies wrapped up in a nice little function, such as wp_get_attachment_image(). This is…