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Jack Reichert

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I post here tips I discover and things I just keep having to look up. This way i can find them easily. If you come across a tip or trick, or find a more efficient way to do something posted here let me know about it.

Add a GitHub Gist to your WordPress site with this nifty Shortcode

I find that I tend, with the nature of what I blog about, to need to post code into my blogposts. Unfortunately this is one area where the WordPress wysiwyg is lacking. The code tags don’t always work, especially without

How to Add META Tags – ROBOTS NOFOLLOW,NOINDEX – to Your MediaWiki Site Head

I spent too much time today hunting down how to do this, so I thought I’d spell it out clearly. Add the following snippet to your LocalSettings.php OR includes/OutputPage.php file and it will insert the META tag ROBOTS NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW into the header. As you

Function Reference/plugin basename « WordPress Codex

When building a WordPress plugin it’s important to know where your plugin sits. An early plugin I release relied heavily on several files inside the plugin directory. Nothing wrong with that, only that at the end of the day, the

Global $post

I’m always referring back to what’s in the WordPress global $post variable. It’s useful to know what’s inside when doing pretty much anything from building a plugin to a theme… Now I won’t have to var_dump-ing it every time I