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bavington / outside-the-loop.php

Last active January 6, 2021 06:57

How to access the Loop and display your posts, from outside of Wordpress.

	<ul>
	<?php
	require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wordpress/wp-load.php');
	$args = array(
	// 'cat' => 3, // Only source posts from a specific category
	'posts_per_page' => 2 // Specify how many posts you'd like to display
	);
	$latest_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
	if ( $latest_posts->have_posts() ) {
	while ( $latest_posts->have_posts() ) {

bavington / Full Domain 301 .htaccess

Last active July 22, 2020 15:05

.htaccess rewrite code to use when 301'ing to a new domain name whilst maintaining the same URL paths.

	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.newdomain\.co.uk
	RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

bavington / Telephone Touch Event Tracking .html

Last active February 6, 2018 12:22

Simple telephone touch/click Event Tracking for Google Analytics.

	<a href="tel:0800123456" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','Phone Call Tracking','Click/Touch','Footer']);">
	0800123456
	</a>

bavington / google-map-api.html

Last active August 3, 2019 17:37

Simple, custom Google Map (API 3.0)

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<title>Example Google Map</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="map-canvas" style="height:400px; width:600px;"></div>
	<script>

bavington / wp_widget_plugin.php

Created July 29, 2013 18:51

Boilerplate for creating a simple Widget Plugin in Wordpress.

	<?php
	/*
	Plugin Name: My Widget Plugin
	Plugin URI: http://twitter.com/jamesbavington
	Description: A simple plugin that adds a simple widget
	Version: 0.1
	Author: bavington
	Author URI: http://twitter.com/jamesbavington
	License: GPL2
	*/

bavington / wp_plugin_settings_link.php

Created August 19, 2013 12:56

Simple function that links up your settings page from the plugin overview page:

	function atfi_settings_link($links, $file) {
	$plugin_file = basename(__FILE__);
	if (basename($file) == $plugin_file) {
	$settings_link = '<a href="options-general.php?page=atfi">Settings</a>';
	array_unshift($links, $settings_link);
	}
	return $links;
	}

	add_filter('plugin_action_links', 'atfi_settings_link', 10, 2);

bavington / 503.php

Created August 20, 2013 07:52

Declare a 503 Status via PHP for SEO friendly downtime.

	<?php
	header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
	header('Retry-After: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:27:00 GMT'); //How long before you estimate your website will be back.
	?>
	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html>
	<head>

bavington / holding_page_htaccess

Created August 20, 2013 07:54

Redirect all of your server's traffic to a single holding page by .htaccess.

	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/offline\.php$
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /offline.php [L]

bavington / logo_schema.html

Last active December 21, 2015 10:19

Optimise your website's logo with Google's logo Schema Mark up.

	<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
	<a itemprop="url" href="http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/">
	<img itemprop="logo" src="http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/logo.png" alt="Company Name ALT Text" />
	</a>
	</div>

bavington / wp_basic_shortcode.php

Last active December 23, 2015 20:19

Basic Wordpress Shortcode registry and callback function.

	<?php
	function last_updated_code() {
	return "<p>This post was last edited on ".get_the_modified_date()." by ".get_the_modified_author()."</p>";
	}
	add_shortcode( 'lastupdated', 'last_updated_code' );
	?>

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