Options API

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Managing featured posts on a WordPress menu

A WordPress menu is a set of existent posts, on an editorial order… and so is a slider or a featured content section! And with a bonus, the WordPress menus page comes with a drag-n-drop UI, supported by the WordPress core team!

Posted on March 19, 2017, by Luis Godinho in Patterns

Cache and Options API

One of the simplest and powerful WordPress APIs is the so called Options API. It allows one to store data in the database easily, in a standardised way. One of the most used functions within this API is the get_option( $option_name ) which retrieves the value stored in DB. For one of my last projects I

Posted on September 6, 2013, by Luis Godinho in WordPress