Coding | Note to self

Checking if string contains numbers

Byemino Sunday December 1st, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

is_numeric doesnt check strings for numbers. You need to use preg_match('#[0-9]#',$string)

Note to self

memcached port and csf
Byemino Wednesday August 19th, 2015

Actually, you do not want to open memcached port in your firewall. #ref: http://serverfault.com/questions/530051/memcached-ports-and-csf

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Coding | Note to self | wordpress

Some people (hint: starts with me) just dont learn
Byemino Tuesday December 10th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

Time and again i fall for this same simple mistake. This may not be intuitive in the context of serialized arrays. If you fetch a serialized array with this method you want $single to be true to actually get an unserialized array back. If you pass in false, or leave it out, you will have…

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Page template pagination fix
Byemino Friday February 7th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

If you are using “page-template”s you’ll have problems with pagination since pages are not meant to display posts and some people frown upon using page-templates for custom archive display, but it’s sometimes the simplest way. Anyway the solution is 1.) to nullify the global $wpquery 2.) adding ‘paged’ => $paged arg. before displaying your posts…

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You can not use conditional tags on init
Byemino Saturday February 1st, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

Queries are only available after “wp” action hook, so ‘init’ is too early to check for it.

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How to get random tags in wordpress
Byemino Monday December 16th, 2013Saturday June 6th, 2015

I needed a placeholder for tags input but it’s boring to display the same tags every time. But unlike posts, WP doesnt have “rand” orderby paramater. So what you can do; is to get a #no of tags and shuffle them. So basically what we do is: Check if we have a recent transient If…

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Coding | Web

Better bootstrap accordion
Byemino Saturday June 6th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

There are a few issues (things I dont like) about the bootstrap accordion: 1- The title is inline, so you have to click the text part to activate it 2- There is no indication if the item is collapsed or open 3- :hover underlining is obnoxious. To solve all these; simply add the below css:…

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