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WordPress provides a simple way to add periodic tasks via cronjobs that initiate custom functions. There are various situations where you will want to run custom PHP code such as updating post statuses or emailing registered users links to new site content.

Whatever your requirement, the WordPress scheduling system is easy to use and extend.

The following code is a basic example of creating an action (hook) that is initiated on a daily basis.

Sometimes when developing with WordPress you may wish to redirect a user to a bespoke template that is different from the standard blog functionality of posts and archives. Maybe you want a certain view of content featuring a custom loop for displaying a combination of custom taxonomies and custom post types. Whatever the situation, WordPress makes it easy to redirect users to certain templates when specific conditions are met.

The WordPress admin interface is a clean easy to use GUI but there are times when you need to style admin content based on certain custom post types.

I recently had an issue where I needed to hide the date selector drop down select menu - the one with the option to 'Show all dates'.

The default 'Show all dates' menu is designed to filter posts by publish date and because my custom post type was a date based event management tool, I already had a custom date selector for events.

Here is a quick fix for outputting WordPress search parameters within form fields such as search input boxes.

Just add the following snippet to your functions.php file:

function new_get_search( $escaped = true ) {
$query = urldecode(get_query_var( 's' ));
if ( $escaped ){
$query = esc_attr( $query );
}
return $query;
}
add_filter( 'get_search_query', 'new_get_search');