Author: pär
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📸 PushSnapper visualiserar utvecklingen av våra webbplatser
Vid utveckling av webbplatser gillar vi att få en visuell historik över sajtens utveckling. Allt från en första vit blank sida till en färdig sajt med logotyp, menu, content och (ibland) andra färger än vitt. För att få denna historik har vi utvecklat ett eget verktyg vid namn 📸 PushSnapper. En skärmdump vid varje deploy…
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Our new tool finds “hidden” WordPress pages exposed by just released WP REST API
In December WordPress 4.7 was released. The most cool part of this release was the inclusion of the WordPress REST API. In development for quite some time it was finally included in core. The WordPress REST API is great for developers because it makes it very easy to get all pages, posts and users from…
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Here is a list of WordPress plugins that Sweden’s largest political parties use
TL;DR: We made a website: partiwebbsidor.se. WordPress is pretty big here in Sweden. Recently we found out that six of the largest political parties use WordPress on their main sites. Here at Earth People we also use WordPress to build sites, so we thought that this it was a pretty cool and interesting fact that all…
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Let Slack nag you that it’s time to return that commuter pass
Another week, and yet another Slack integration here at Earth People. This time we’ve added an integration to the public transport system here in Stockholm. At Earth People we like to use public transportation when going to meetings with clients. That’s why we have bought a couple of commuter passes that we can use whenever we…
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What WP plugins does a site use? Our tool have the answer!
We at Earth People have a bunch of WordPress plugins that we have developed over the years. Some of them are even pretty usable! That’s why whenever we hear about a new WordPress site being released here in Sweden, we eagerly try to find out if any of our plugins are being used. Previously that…
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WordPress loops: with_posts() is my way of dealing with them
One of the most boring, cumbersome and dangerous things with WordPress is getting and working with posts in custom loops. A common situation is like this: That’s a bit cumbersome I think. Do I really need to do that while-thingie, that the_post()-method-thingie and that wp_reset_postdata()-thingie each time? It feels a bit… repetitive. And dangerous, since…
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The very first field extension for Simple Fields comes from Earth People
The recently released version 1 of Simple Fields added a nice feature called “field extensions“: using a simple API, developers can add their own custom field types to the plugin. Nice indeed. For one of our WordPress projects we needed to be able to attach a location to each post, so we though that “hey,…
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WordPress Plugin Simple Fields now maintained by Earth People
Yes, the great – prepare for SEO Keyword madness! – WordPress custom fields plugin Simple Fields is now actively developed by us here at EarthPeople. This is thanks to the fact that the plugin creator Pär since a while back spends his days at our office, typing away on his Macbook Air or browsing the WordPress…