Add a Google Plus Follow Button in WordPress with Shortcode
The Google Plus follow button is an underutilised tool that will display a YouTube Subscribe or Twitter Follow style button from which your visitors can add you to their circles. Unlike the the follow...
View ArticleEmbed Google Plus Posts in WordPress with Shortcode
Continuing in the spirit of articles that detail some Google+ features for WordPress, the latest post will show you how to embed a Google Plus post into a WordPress post or page with shortcode. From...
View ArticleConvert a HEX Color Value or RGB Array to CIE XYZ
The CIE XYZ color model (created in 1931) is a ‘device-independent’ colour space in which each primary colour (X,Y,Z) is always constant, unlike RGB model where color variances occur with every...
View ArticleConvert an XYZ Color to CIELAB Color Space with PHP
In 1931, CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage) defined the color space, representing all possible colors based on human perception. Like RGB, CIE XYZ has three orthogonal dimensions; however,...
View ArticleAdd a Pinterest Button over Every Image (and the Top of Every Page) in WordPress
is a free website that allows users to upload, save, sort, and manage images – known as pins – and other media content (such as videos and images) through collections known as pinboards. Users can save...
View ArticleUse the Pinterest API to Count the Number of URL Shares with WordPress...
We’ve provided a large number of WordPress shortcodes and PHP functions in the past that will count shares on various . While we’ve shied away from in the past, we’re quickly catching up on lost time...
View ArticleAdd a Hexadecimal to RGB Color Chart into WordPress with Shortcode
We’ve written a few articles on over the last few months leading up a website of our own that can be used as our own (public) web resource. We messed with quite a few ways of representing the mix of...
View ArticleAn Easier (Depreciated) Way to Get Your Facebook Fan Count with WordPress...
While playing around with an app I stumbled upon the Facebook’s Rest Server API which I hadn’t dealt with before. While depreciated, it’s still working at the time of writing, and worthy of noting here...
View ArticleEmbed a CodePen Pen in WordPress with Shortcode
describes their platform as a “playground for the front end side of the web. It’s all about inspiration, education, and sharing”. The platform takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and runs the code...
View ArticleRender an Age (from DOB) in WordPress with Shortcode
On one of the sites we worked on last year we would often note the age of a person (or years since an event) in the article body. Since much of the information we share is timeless in nature it makes...
View ArticleIndex a PHP Array so the first value has a numeric Key of 1 (rather than 0)
If you find yourself with the need to reindex an array so the first element has a key of 1 (rather than 0), the following function may come in useful. The function certainly isn’t required… it’s just I...
View ArticleTruncate an Array from the “Left” or “Right” with PHP
In our article on , we used a function that would truncate the returned data either side of the array to remove an introductory image or the trailing image (Imgur people have a bad habit of throwing in...
View ArticleRedirect a WordPress Image Page to the Parent Post
If you upload an image via the WordPress image library, of you have it imported in your code to a post or page, that image will be available in a standalone page that displays the image in full....
View ArticleFind all Images (Except the Featured Image) Attached to a WordPress Post or Page
I recently had the need to return all images that were imported into a WordPress post or page (except the featured image). Since my specific use will likely be of no use to you, I’ve reproduced some...
View ArticleEmbed Yahoo News Videos into WordPress with Shortcode (or use a PHP Function...
http://news.yahoo.com/video/yahoo-news-live-ben-carson-182500280.html [crayon-5a1a20ccbb56c299404793/] Embed Yahoo News Videos into WordPress with Shortcode (or use a PHP Function outside WP), from...
View ArticleEmbed SoundCloud Audio into WordPress with Shortcode (without oEmbed or the API)
is an online audio distribution platform that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. According to company data from 2014, they attract more than 175...
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