Content snippet in blog posts with a shortcode

Posted on November 30, 2015, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

You’re having the same content snippet on multiple WordPress blog posts and are fed up with making changes to that small piece on each single post? I’m showing you how to create a custom WordPress shortcode that pulls the content from a single post and injects it right into your blog posts.

The situation

I used an ad managing plugin for displaying the same content in multiple articles. Basically, those are a series of blog posts that had a table of contents.

Different database connections in WordPress development environments

Posted on November 25, 2015, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

Since I am using version control with GIT, I have set up different environments for my current WordPress/Magento-married project. For this project, I did not want to continue “cowboy coding”, so I set up a remote staging / testing / development site and multiple local development sites. Each site has its own purpose and needs its own MySQL database. So I had to handle different database connections in my WordPress installations. Well, I could work with only one DB,

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Content snippet in blog posts with a shortcode

The situation

Different database connections in WordPress development environments