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January 20, 2020 1 Comment

Quick Tip: Add help text above the Publish button

Intermediate Quick Tips

True to my quick tips series, this is a new quick tip! How to add help text above the Publish button on the WordPress admin. This is a straightforward function. Maybe you want to add a reminder for users before they publish? Maybe you even want to prevent them from…

August 12, 2019August 13, 2019 3 Comments

How to intercept post publishing based on post meta

Tutorials

It’s been a while since I’ve written a step by step tutorial. I decided to write one based on a real world task I had to work on.This is a tutorial on how to intercept post publishing in WordPress. In summary, I needed to stop people from publishing posts based on…

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August 31, 2015August 31, 2015 2 Comments

10 Ways to Learn WordPress Hooks

Resources WordPress

WordPress Hooks are hard. We always hear the word “hooks” being thrown around and it’s one of those things that make sense, but then it doesn’t. I’m sure that there may even people reading this right now, and not entirely sure what I mean by hooks. That’s okay. Before I…

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July 13, 2015July 15, 2015 37 Comments

The WordPress Hooks Firing Sequence!

WordPress

All right, so big questions for WordPress hooks. What hooks exist for use? And what is the WordPress hooks firing sequence? As in, what order do WordPress hooks fire within their actual context? There are two resources, the WP Hook Database by Adam Brown and WordPress’ Code Reference to search for hooks. These two are great,…

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