Amado Martinez

Creating multiple post types in wordpress can be tedious work. Use php classes to handle post type registration and better event handling for saving custom meta data. (Part 2 coming soon.)

This piece of code is trivial and very useful for development of custom sites and cms. add to functions.php Enjoy! Happy Coding! – Amado Martinez / Projectivemotion Web Development

On Custom WordPress Installations, you may want to remove the wordpress dashboard completely and add your own dashboard or plugin page. Of course you can hide the other dashboard widgets and leave only your own, but if you want complete control, this is one solution. I was able to do this using the following approach: On WordPress 3.1.1, the /wp-admin/index.php provides no support for overriding the wp_dashboard() function. After digging…

Recently, I had to use the super handy WordPress Calendar Plugin. After adding a few repeating events and taking a look at the output it generated, I noticed the large number of queries that it executed! It executed at least 3 queries per day of the month being displayed! I was doing development that required displaying two months at a time, and the total number of queries was over 150!!…

Just finished quite a bit of code tracing to figure out why accents are stripped from permalinks in wordpress. It all boils down to a sanitize_title filter (the function is sanitize_title_with_dashes) which calls remove_accents. I created a plugin which removes the ‘dashes’ function and replaces it with the same code except it doesnt call remove_accents. Download PermalinksWithAccents Plugin