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/**
 * Load custom post type archive on home page
 *
 * Reference: http://www.wpaustralia.org/wordpress-forums/topic/pre_get_posts-and-is_front_page/
 * Reference: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30851/how-to-use-a-custom-post-type-archive-as-front-page
 */
function prefix_downloads_front_page( $query ) {

    // Only filter the main query on the front-end
    if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {

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/*
 * 1. Go to Settings > Permalinks and select any page as home page
 * Then use the following code
 *
 * You can add those codes in your functions.php in the theme, if you think your theme won’t be changed.
 * Otherwise mu-plugins is the best solution. To use mu-plugins, go to /wp-content/ and find the folder with name 'mu-plugins'.
 * If there is no folder in that name, then create a folder, name it 'mu-plugins', create a file inside that, 
 * give any name you like and paste the code in there. You don't need to activate that plugin. Mu-plugins means must use plugins, 
 * so it will be activated automatically always. If you use mu-plugins then add a php start tag at the beginning of the code.

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/**
 * @package Custom_menu_admin
 * @version 1.0
 */
/*
Plugin Name: Custom menu admin
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/#
Description: This is an example plugin
Author: Carlo Daniele

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Embed a Vimeo Video as a Background

HTML/API Snippet

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/**
 * Plugin Name: Automatic Dark Mode
 * Plugin URI: https://github.com/danieltj27/Dark-Mode/
 * Description: Lets your users make the WordPress admin dashboard darker.
 * Author: Daniel James
 * Author URI: https://www.danieltj.co.uk/
 * Text Domain: auto-dark-mode
 * Version: 1.0

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Set Advanced Custom Fields Metabox Priority

WordPress & ACF Snippet

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Create Admin Account via FTP

WordPress Snippet

If you have FTP access to a client's website but they didn't give you an administrator account then this snippet in a plugin, or in file in their ~/wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder, will generate an account for you. Change the login info to yours.

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Using Git to Manage a Live Web Site

Overview

As a freelancer, I build a lot of web sites. That's a lot of code changes to track. Thankfully, a Git-enabled workflow with proper branching makes short work of project tracking. I can easily see development features in branches as well as a snapshot of the sites' production code. A nice addition to that workflow is that ability to use Git to push updates to any of the various sites I work on while committing changes.

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Getting Started

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/**
 * Grab the url of a publicly embeddable video hosted on vimeo
 * @param  str $video_url The "embed" url of a video
 * @return str            The url of the thumbnail, or false if there's an error
 */
function grab_vimeo_thumbnail($vimeo_url){
    if( !$vimeo_url ) return false;

    $data = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'http://vimeo.com/api/oembed.json?url=' . $vimeo_url ) );

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    /**
     * Gets the thumbnail url for a vimeo video using the video id. This only works for public videos.
     *
     * @param string $id        The video id.
     * @param string $thumbType Thumbnail image size. supported sizes: small, medium (default) and large.
     *
     * @return string|bool