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Set the thumbnail that facebook uses when someone shares your WordPress post.

This snippet checks if your WordPress post has a post thumbnail set and uses that as the default thumbnail for facebook sharing. If no post thumbnail is set it will use a default image that you have setup.

Set WordPress’s default attachment link to none

Anyone else get annoyed that WordPress automatically assumes you want to link an image to the full file when using the media uploader and Insert into Post button in the editor? This can be easily overidden by updating the option ‘image_default_link_type’ and setting it’s value to ‘none’. You can do this either with code in [...]

Add a Category Image Field to Jigoshop’s Product Categories

EDIT: After posting this I expanded quite a bit, adding more fields to the category meta & an upload button to the image fields. I don’t have time to add to the tutorial but the code can be grabbed from here. readme file details whats in there. Some of it you should be able to [...]

Get the WordPress post attachment ID from an Image Src

This function returns the wordpress attachment ID of a given image src. Useful if you need to get a different size version of the same image.

Setting up a Homepage Slider with WordPress Custom Post Types and Jquery Cycle

In this tutorial we will look at how to setup a home page slider using WordPress custom post types and jQuery cycle. Setting up the Custom Post First thing we’re going to do is setup a theme initiation function. This runs every automatically every time a page is loaded. Inside that function we’ll set up [...]

Better CSS Font Stacks

Taken from unitinteractive for easy reference. p – balanced for paragraphs or body copy t – balanced for headlines or titles Arial, “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, sans-serif – p, t Baskerville, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif – p Baskerville, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – t Cambria, Georgia, Times, “Times New Roman”, serif – p, t [...]

Adding Menus in WP

Taken from wordpress codex. Copy / Paste code for adding menus to a theme.

Custom Posts & Taxonomies

Code for setting up custom post types including all labels and admin messages. Nothing exciting here :)

Hello world!

Welcome to pathorsley.com. This is my first post. WordPress wrote it for me!