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.So what ?
Byemino Friday March 25th, 2016Friday March 25th, 2016

As you know, 3-4 letter domains are hard to come by these days, even with not so popular .tlds. “So”, I had a 3 letter a .so domain to use mainly as an url shortener. FYI: .so is the tld for Somalia, the source of inspiration for the dankest memes of the internetz. Apart from…

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WP nav menu disappears on category page
Byemino Thursday February 6th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

My navigation menu started disappearing on category pages. First I suspected there was something with the header or menu location, I have double, triple checked everything and I was pulling my hair out trying to find a solution. Turns out, my attempt to order posts by a custom field interfered with the menu. if( ! $query->is_main_query())…

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Fastest way to get a random post link in wp
Byemino Tuesday September 22nd, 2015Tuesday September 22nd, 2015

Previously we have established that the fastest way to get an ID is using wpdb . So, simply to get a random post link use: function eo_get_a_rand_postlink() { global $wpdb; $rand_post_id = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type = ‘post’ ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1”); return get_permalink($rand_post_id); }

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Fastest way to get user ID in wordpress
Byemino Friday April 17th, 2015Saturday June 6th, 2015

There are various ways to get user_ID in WP. But which one is the fastest ? I’ve compared 3 ways function get_uid_from_global() { global $current_user; return $current_user->ID; } function get_uid_by_gcuid() { return get_current_user_id(); } function get_uid_by_wpgcu_id() { return wp_get_current_user()->ID; } Without a doubt, global method was fastest. With multiple 100,000 runs, global method took 0.9~…

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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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Optimizing WordPress query for autocomplete search
Byemino Wednesday February 5th, 2014Saturday June 6th, 2015

I was working on an autocomplete solution and I was thinking of ways to speed up the search. I will be providing a few examples with results below. Q1 is the default wordpress search with no parameters. Q2 removes the caches since they wont be really necessary. And Q3 is tailored for precision; ie: my…

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