Joe Hoyle

WordPress Rewrite Rules, Human Made Core Style!

21 January 2013 by Joe Hoyle 7 Comments

The WordPress rewrite system is an area many people struggle with when starting out. People not familiar with rewrite systems don’t necessarily understand what role they play and often developers who are used to using rewrite systems find WordPress’s implementation somewhat clunky.

When working on relatively complex WordPress projects, which have multiple custom taxonomies and combinations of post types, custom rewrite rules are likely to be needed. [Read more…] about WordPress Rewrite Rules, Human Made Core Style!

Using PHP Closures in WordPress

14 November 2012 by Joe Hoyle 19 Comments

There has been little discussion on the use of PHP Closures with WordPress code, hopefully we will be able to spark some here! Before getting into the nitty-gritty, to make sure everyone is on the same page a quick explanation of a PHP Closure.

Anonymous functions, also known as closures, allow the creation of functions which have no specified name. They are most useful as the value of callback parameters, but they have many other uses.

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Why Use Closures?

The ability to create single-use callback functions can be very useful when developing in WordPress land, as it’s very often one needs to run code via hooks and filters. At its simplest consider the following code: [Read more…] about Using PHP Closures in WordPress