Under Construction

Sometimes a client wishes to develop on a live site. And every now and then the work isn’t finished on time. In these cases an Under Construction page comes in handy. The problem is there are numerous, often times bloated, plugins for WordPress for this. One of the cleaner and simpler ones is Under Construction.

Code Snippets

So this is a real game changer. With Code Snippets plugin it becomes real easy to tweak WordPress into doing exactly what you want. Normally I would look for a plugin if I wanted to change or add something. But now a lot of the little things can be done with Code Snippets. Solution in the … Read more

Toolset

The WordPress plugin I use for realizing more advanced stuff is Toolset. Toolset lets you create custom post-types with custom fields, display (filtered) lists, link post-types together in various ways (e.g. parent-child, one-to-many or one-one) and create frontend forms. When combined in the right way you can achieve a lot of functionality with these elements. For … Read more

Display username in WordPress menu

So I’m extending WordPress with Toolset and adding all kinds of functionality. There are hundreds of little things that need to be in place for the experience to be ‘app-like’. Not all of the these things can be done with Toolset. One of the things is displaying the (logged in) username in the WordPress menu. … Read more

Lightweight Sidebar Manager

Sometimes you want tot display a specific sidebar on a specific page. In Weaver Xtreme, my go to theme, this custom sidebars are integrated. On this website I use Generate Press because this is one of the themes Toolset advises. And Generate Press doesn’t have this functionality, at least not on the free version. So … Read more