Genericons unicode values

List of Unicode code points for Genericons vector icon set and a BASH script that finds the codes.

Read »

Extending WordPress custom menus

Article on extending WordPress custom menus for single posts and pages.

Read »

Sorting UTF-8 strings in PHP

Sorting UTF-8 encoded strings using strcoll and usort PHP functions.

Read »

Insertion Sort algorithm and sorting dates in PHP

An article on sorting dates and times with insertion sort algorithm in PHP.

Read »

Find first image URL in WordPress post content

Finding first image URL in a WordPress post content with a few lines of PHP code.

Read »

Extending WordPress custom menus

Suppose you have built a custom menu using WordPress GUI for your website. The menu contains a subset of links to posts and pages that your website has to offer. For example, it might not, and in fact it shouldn't, contain a link to a confirmation page, user gets redirected ...

Read more »

Non-destructive array extending in PHP

Non-destructive extending of array in PHP Suppose you have to extend a PHP array by inserting some value at a particular index of it without destroying other pieces of data stored in the array. In PHP Extending array non-desctructively by prepending an item can be achieved with ...

Read more »

Installing WordPress language files automatically

Installing language file(s) is one of possibly hundreds small tasks one has to plod through while building a multilingual website or blog with WordPress. Mostly due to being documented well, the task is not difficult to carry out. Nonetheless, it diverts attention from other ...

Read more »

Insertion Sort algorithm and sorting dates in PHP

When it comes to dealing with dates and times in PHP, one look at the language related manual pages is enough to concolude, there is a daunting number of various functions for all sorts of purposes, from stuff for managing timestamp and timzones to routines for formatting and ...

Read more »