If you want resulting oEmbed code to scale to a specific size (width) in WordPress, you can do this really easily by setting the $content_width global variable before calling your oEmbed processing. Example: global $wp_embed, $content_width; $content_width = ’600′; // set to desired width $string_with_embedded_content = $wp_embed->autoembed($string_with_oembed_url); I only recently ran across this feature (just…

When you want inject something into the WordPress admin, you might not think to account for pages that load inside lightboxes (plugin updates, media upload, etc.). Generally, you don’t want to add your JS/CSS/etc. to these pages. To check for this type of page load, you can check for the IFRAME_REQUEST constant. View the code…

Cribbed from the WP-Hackers list, the following sample code should give you a good way to test if the current “in the loop” action is within the main loop or a different loop: function main_loop_test($query) { global $wp_the_query; if ($query === $wp_the_query) { echo “main loop”; } } add_action(‘loop_start’, ‘main_loop_test’); Thanks Nacin and Konrad. This…

The transients feature of WordPress is a very useful tool for local data cache when pulling from a remote data source (web service/API). A typical workflow goes something like this: Get remote data. Store it locally as transient data with a timeout. Once the data times out, get remote data again. That’s the basics and…