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Problem: how to get Wordpress-style pretty permalinks into an Angular app? I want my permalinks to have this format: http://domain.com/2017/02/post-slug-here/ I want single posts and category and tag archives to contain slugs, not IDs in the URL. This is not hard to achieve with Angular UI-router. This is how I do it..

I added pagination to this site’s headless theme. Its and Angular client for a WordPress API.

The key to this is knowing what Angular’s ui-router can do. This post by Aviv Ben-Yosef was very helpful: Simple pagination and URL params with ui-router. It explains how to set up routes with ‘squashed’ parameters, and make simple pagination functions in your controller.

Another helpful find was in Kadam White’s wpapi utility, which does the actual interaction with my WordPress JSON API.…

I coded up an Angular 1.5 app that shows the posts from my WordPress blog. It fetches post data from this site’s Rest API.

A proof-of-concept is here: Cherrytree.

The repo is on my Github: Topheavy-Angular.

It shows a ‘default’ listing of posts on the front page, which is equivalent to the default WordPress loop. I has single post views with the same URL structure as my WordPress permalinks.…

oikos get attachment link filter This fixes a flaw in the WP gallery shortcode. The problem is that when you make a gallery, and you set link to "file", it links to the original. That might be a 10M jpeg. This function links to the large instead of the original. On every site with galleries, I install lightbox and this nice little filter.

I discovered the free plugin Advanced Custom Fields last summer, and was blown away. This is such a powerful plugin. I immediately bought the Repeater Field addon for $25. With repeater fields you can make multiple rows of the same type of field. Loops of fields!

An example of a nice way to use this plugin combo would be a page of customer testimonials on a website.…

Say you have a magazine-style WordPress theme. It has a slider that loads three posts, and then a list of recent posts.  The issue of pagination come up when the user hits the Older Posts link.

Maybe you have a front page that displays 3 posts in the slider. The slider is a loop. Then a default loop that shows your most recent posts. And the number of posts is determined by the setting in your Settings – Reading – Blog pages show at most X posts.…

WP Migrate Pro…

I created this smart PayPal form for Trekkers.org. See trekkers.org/donate/. It lets the user switch back and forth between recurring and one-time donations. I couldn’t find a free plugin that can do this.

If this is installed on a WordPress or other CMS site, it is better set up as a plugin. A site owner does not need to lose all functionality just because he/she switches themes.…

I like these:
WordPress snippets to interact with social networks

Update, 4 years later. Obviously, these snippets are way out of date. In any case, if you want to add social media buttons to your site you are probably better off with a plugin, that hopefully will stay updated and not snoop on you.. I can’t recommend one. Frankly, I think social media buttons are overrated.…