I’ve just finished a project for a client who wanted an interesting feature on his site. He wanted a block of content to be turned on and off whenever he needed it. So when he wanted to promote something, he wanted to add some content and have it display until he was ready to ‘turn it off’. I came up with a unique means of doing this using custom fields. Here’s how you can achieve this:
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Controlling the visibility of content with custom fields
Controlling custom content areas on your site
Most of the time when you’re designing a home page for a CMS based website, you’re going to have specific areas of content on your page that aren’t blog related, but that you want your client to have control over. For example their contact details, an ‘about us’ blurb, their company motto or maybe their company’s vision. There exists a really easy way in WordPress to allow for these areas to be controlled through your admin. Here’s how…
