WordPress is awesome. But like any system, it’s not great at everything. One of those things is media image size management, where it just doesn’t work well. The Problems: WordPress uses something called “Thumbnail Image Sizes” to maintain different versions of your images in different image sizes. You define these image sizes under Settings -> […]
Category: Web Development
I was looking for an easy way to dynamically add or remove capabilities for users based on either their IDs or roles, but I couldn’t find any elegant solution. That is until I found a beautiful filter: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/user_has_cap It’s so simple, and you can just add this to your functions.php file, or use it in […]
We’ve all been there. There’s a perfectly good menu in the admin under Appearance -> Menus which has the whole site laid out perfectly. Now we start coding the templates and realize that we only need sub-menu items of a particular page, of a particular level from that menu. There are two ways to do […]
Greetings, developers of all colors! First of all this tutorial assumes that you already know how to make a Magento extension. Now there are many ways to add a color picker in the Magento admin (or anywhere). Here’s one “correct” and “extendable” way to do it: First, we would need a color picker. This color […]
If you’ve been coding in Magento long enough, you would have come across a situation where you need to query the database directly. For whatever reason, no judgements. Well, here is my contribution to save you a lot of time. And this is as secure as using models to interact with your database. If you […]
I’m sure you’ve run into this issue so many times if you’ve made themes whose complexity ranges from medium to tearing-your-hair-out-and-wishing-the-designer-has-diarrhea: The admin needs to be able to add a custom style to one of the elements from the WordPress editor. Sounds simple enough, and it is. But before you go styling away, always keep […]
Note: This tutorial is for Magento versions 1.x.x, and does not work on Magento 2 +. Magento is a great open source e-commerce platform and has emerged as the market leader in the recent past. However, it still has a steep learning curve and although the community is growing exponentially, I was not able to […]