Pt. 2 – Install plugins via Composer, migrate data This is the second in a series of screen-casts that will document the process of moving a WordPress website from a shared hosting provider to a Digital Ocean droplet with Trellis, Bedrock, and Sage, with an SSL from Let’s Encrypt. In the first screen-cast I setup…
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/**
* Output Post Format icons
*
* Outputs an icon for each post format. Set up to use Fontawesome,
* but can be used with anything, or you can just use CSS.
*
* @return string
*/
function post_format_icon() {
global $post;
// get current post ID
$id = $post->ID;
// get post format
$format = get_post_format( $id );
// array of icons as $format => $icon key/value pairs
$icons = [
'standard' => 'fa-pencil',
'aside' => 'fa-sticky-note',
'chat' => 'fa-comments',
'gallery' => 'fa-picture-o',
'link' => 'fa-external-link',
'image' => 'fa-camera',
'quote' => 'fa-quote-left',
'status' => 'fa-commenting',
'video' => 'fa-video-camera'
];
// format will return false if no format is set. So, evaluate against this..
// if format = false then $icon = standard, else icon = selected format
$format == ( false ) ? $icon = $icons['standard'] : $icon = $icons[ $format ];
// string to be output
// echo a full line of html or just drop the output in as a class
$output = $icon;
// return the output
return $output;
}
I was super honored to speak at WordCamp Lancaster today! My topic was WordPress workflows with PHPStorm. Here’s a link to my slides and some helpful resources.
Read PostAs of Sage 8.2 the Bootstrap navigation has been removed. This is part of Sage’s move towards framework agnosticism. Adding the nav back is so easy that it doesn’t really warrant a video, but I like making videos, so here’s a quick walk through. 🙂
Read PostIn my last post I covered how to get a copy of your WordPress site running on your computer, in this post I will cover migrating your WordPress site back to your web server.
Read PostRunning your WordPress site on your computer gives you a perfect laboratory to safely experiment with. This is really easy to do, I’ll show you how to do this to do with 3 pieces of free software.
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