WordPress Allow Login With Email

By Default WordPress do not let you to login using Email. Here, you can modify this behavior. Just add below code in your active theme’s functions.php file (Maybe if you are using child theme, put it into child theme’s functions.php).

add_filter('authenticate', 'customAllowEmailLogin', 20, 3);
function customAllowEmailLogin( $user, $username, $password ) {
	if ( is_email( $username ) ) {
	    $user = get_user_by_email( $username );
	    if ( $user ) $username = $user->user_login;
	}
return wp_authenticate_username_password( null, $username, $password );
}

Now you can login with your email into WordPress.
Please leave your comments if its working or not working for you.

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How to change length of Excerpt in WordPress

As a WordPress developer, i needed to change the length of the excerpt.
You can add following function in your themes’s functions.php file.

if(!function_exist('new_excerpt_length') {
    function new_excerpt_length($length) { 
       return 100;
    }
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

Above function will change the excerpt length to 100. (You can change that value as per your need).

Useful Full Forms

Below you can find some useful full forms.

Technical

PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor
PEAR : PHP Extension and Application Repository
Ajax : Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol
HTML : Hypertext Markup Language
CSS : Cascading Style Sheets
SQL : Structured Query Language
ANSI : American National Standards Institute
DBMS : Database Management System
RDBMS : Relational Database Management System
DDL : Data Definition Language
DML : Data Manipulation Language
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group
MPEG : Moving Picture Experts Group
PNG : Portable Network Graphics
AVI : Audio Video Interleaved
HTTP : Hypertext Transfer Protocol
W3C : World Wide Web Consortium
IETF : Internet Engineering Task Force
IRTF : Internet Research Task Force
APC : Alternative PHP Cache
APD : Advanced PHP debugger
SVN : Subversion (version control system)
PDO : PHP Data Objects
FTP : File Transfer Protocol
SFTP : Secure File Transfer Protocol
CGI : Common Gateway Interface
DOM : Document Object Model
JSON : JavaScript Object Notation
MSI : Microsoft Installer
XMPP : The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
REST : Representational State Transfer
RSS : Really Simple Syndication
URL : Uniform Resource Locator
XML : Extensible Markup Language
SPAs : Single Page Applications
RFQ : Request For Quotation
XHR : XML HTTP Request

Non-technical

NEWS : North East West South
WHO : World Health Organization

Detect an AJAX Request in PHP

Whenever you need to check if request is Ajax or non-Ajax, you can check it using following code.

if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) == 'xmlhttprequest') {
echo "This is an Ajax Request";
}else {
echo "Not an Ajax Request";
}

Reference : http://davidwalsh.name/detect-ajax

WordPress – Add pagination in admin listing page

When you need to add pagination in WordPress admin listing, just follow below steps:

$page_num = isset( $_GET['pagenum'] ) ? absint( $_GET['pagenum'] ) : 1;
$limit = 10; // Number of rows in page
$offset = ( $page_num - 1 ) * $limit;
$total = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(`id`) FROM `wp_posts`" );
$num_of_pages = ceil( $total / $limit );
$lists = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT $offset,$limit" );

$page_links = paginate_links( array(
'base' => add_query_arg( 'pagenum', '%#%' ),
'format' => '',
'prev_text' => __( '«', 'text-domain' ),
'next_text' => __( '»', 'text-domain' ),
'total' => $num_of_pages,
'current' => $pagenum
) );

if ( $page_links ) {
echo '<div class="tablenav"><div class="tablenav-pages" style="margin: 1em 0;">' . $page_links . '</div></div>';
}

Leave comments if you find it useful or you have any query about this.