Matt Varone - Creative Developer

— Custom fields give WordPress immense flexibility, by using them correctly you can create very complex applications with the same functionality you could only find in custom CMS. Now for us developers, one of the “problems” we might face using multiple custom fields is that there is no easy ( built in ) solution to query posts or pages based on these multiple values. If you want to do so you have to create a custom ( somewhat complex ) sql query which is clearly not an easy task for most people, and most important it ain’t a flexible solution you could just include from one project to another.
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— After some requests I decided to update* and wrap UItoTop into a plugin for WordPress. This plugin automatically adds a dynamic “To Top” button to easily scroll long pages back to the top. This way is much more simple to add the functionality to a theme as it only involves uploading and activating the plugin.

Installation

1. Download “Dynamic To Top” from the link above and unzip the files somewhere on your computer.
2. Upload “dynamic-to-top” folder into your plugins directory.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Have fun!

* Big thanks to Rémy Tourbiez for his contribution to the code.

— I found that more than often clients generate a lot of garbage html in the post content with things like divs, p , a, etc. tags which haven’t been closed or opened properly. This makes the website fail to validate against W3C standards which in between other things, could potentially affect the site’s ranking and its accessibility. Of course asking clients to switch to the HTML view to clean the content is out of the question, so a solution is needed, and been that this could happen to any site makes it something that we should take in count upfront when building a professional website.

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