keaglez

Hi! I'm Jeffri Hong, also known as keaglez, a 20 years old geek who love the web and comic.

Sort by latest post for wp_list_categories

Posted on Programming, Wordpress and tagged with , , ,
Jan 26 2012

One of my developer friend asked me if we could sort by last post using wp_list_categories function for WordPress. By default, wp_list_categories accept arguments for order by ID, name, slug, count or term_group. Order by latest post is not possible by default, but with a little of tweak using filter hook, we can. :)

First, we’ll looking at the function wp_list_categories. This function made call to get_categories to get the list of categories, which made another call to get_terms. Categories in WordPress is basically terms with category taxonomy. Finally, looking on the get_terms function, we will find some delicious filter hook that suitable for our customization.

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WordPress Snippets part 1

Posted on Programming, Wordpress and tagged with , ,
May 10 2011

Well, this will be a short list of WordPress snippets that we could use. This snippets is collected from my daily work on WordPress and should be useful for daily basis.

WordPress mail snippets

WordPress has its own improved function for sending email, it is wp_mail. We should always use this function if we wanted to send email within WordPress. With this function, we don’t need to worry much about the mail header and stuff. More over, there is plenty of filter we can use to customize it.

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Customize Custom Post Type Landing Page with Clean URL

Posted on Programming, Wordpress and tagged with , ,
May 04 2011

WordPress has been long capable on using custom post type. Since WordPress 3.0, we are now easier to create a custom post type. I have blogged some tips about it.

However, many didn’t know that the custom post type already had it’s own landing page, though, you will need to pass the post type variable to the URL. This post will guide you to the step by step on customizing the post type landing page, as well as adding a new rewrite rule for a cleaner URL.

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Simple jQuery and CSS3 Slideshow Tabs

Posted on Designing, Programming and tagged with , , , , ,
Oct 15 2010

A slideshow and tabs is pretty common nowadays in any modern website. There is a ton of way to do this and many free and paid tools available for this feature. This make it very easy to create and it will always amaze people who see it. Basically, we will need at least Javascript to do this, CSS to style the slideshow and tabs as we wanted, and then finally the special HTML markup which make it possible. There is also a slideshow which make use of Flash.

The solution I tried to made right now is a very simple and basic one. It make use of simple jQuery to catch the click event and switching tabs, as well as the slideshow, the CSS to style it as much as we wanted and a simple HTML markup in one unordered list.

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The Basics to Write a Secure PHP Web Application

Posted on Programming and tagged with , ,
Sep 03 2010

Securing your application is the most important things when building an application. This is the basic that every programmer should follow, it’s a must. However, sometime programmer might forgot the basic, and the more complex your application is, the harder it is to maintain and looking for security holes. While securing your application doesn’t mean that you will be totally safe from a hack, since there is many factor of why a web can be hacked, but reduce the possibility is always a good practice.

This article will give you walkthrough on the basics of creating a secured PHP application. I will give some step by step to filtering input, keep your code up to date and standard. I’ll also give you some good practice I always do.

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