The first half-hour of the meeting we discussed some WordCamp Buffalo 2014 ideas.
Easy WP_Query’s
@AndyStaple showed a very simple, yet handy website that lets you easily get code for WP_Query’s called the WP Query Generator.
UB Students building WP Themes
Next, @djlicata discussed a neat project his class at UB was working on, which in short was teams of 6 students building websites for non-profit companies in the area. One of the final steps was making these designs into WordPress themes and overall it was a success despite some common stumbling points that many hit when first building custom WordPress themes.
What Theme File?
Scott demonstrated this is a neat little snippet of code to show what theme template file is loading for the page you’re on.
/*------------------------------------*\
This show what template page was used.
\*------------------------------------*/
add_action('wp_head', 'show_template');
function show_template() {
global $template;
print_r($template);
}
Page-Preview Plugin
@empireoflight demonstrated his nifty little plugin built to display small previews of posts/pages in WordPress via Shortcodes. Check it out on Github: Page-Preview.