November 2015

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  • Assign Authors or Co-authors to a WordPress Posts Programmatically

    There are occasions when you need to do something programmatically, i.e., through a little function, rather then by clicking on a button in WordPress. Such was the case when I needed to re-assign an author to massive amount of posts. There were just too many posts to do it manually from the backend of WordPress,…

  • Overwrite Default Post Permalinks

    Every WordPress post has a permalink by default. The permalink is displayed, as expected, by the the_permalink() function. In some cases, we might need to enforce another URL to a post as its permalink, be it another link within the site or an external URL. We can provide the custom URL through a custom field…

  • A Guide to Actions and Filters in WordPress

    WordPress comes with this built-in API that allows us to hook custom functionality into the rest of WordPress. We can provide that extra functionality through plugins or themes. These are called hooks and they are either actions or filters.  Actions allow us to run custom functions at a certain points of a request, while filters…

  • How to Get Post Slug in WordPress

    The post slug is the part of the URL of a post or page at the last section. E.g.: Page: https://wplancer.com/about/Post: https://wplancer.com/2015/09/post-slug-here/ There are two ways to get the slug in WordPress inside the loop. The first way is to access the $post object that is available inside the loop. The second way is to…