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[Solved] Fatal error: Call to undefined function boolval()

boolval() is a PHP function that was introduced in PHP 5.5. If you try to use it on a server that runs PHP 5.4 and lower, you will get an error like this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function boolval()

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Embed YouTube Videos On Bootstrap 4 Popup Modals With AutoPlay

Bootstrap 4 does not natively support embedding videos on its modal windows. Here is how to embed YouTube videos on modal popup windows.

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Escaping Text With Links In WordPress – The Right Way

Escaping a text with links can be replaced if escaped with __() during localization. This not ideal since the person writing the localizing file could replace links with their own. The proper way to do this is explained with an

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Load CSS and JS the right way

/** * Load CSS and JS the right way * * @since  1.0 * @refer  https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_enqueue_style/#comment-340 */ function firerooster_load_css_and_js() {   // Load Boostrap CSS   wp_enqueue_style( ‘bootstrap-css’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/includes/bootstrap4/css/bootstrap.min.css’ );      // Load style.css   wp_enqueue_style( ‘style’, get_stylesheet_uri() );      // Load Boostrap

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Display First Few Characters Of A WordPress Post Outside The Loop

<?php echo apply_filters( ‘the_content’, wp_trim_words( strip_tags( get_post_field(‘post_content’, $recent[“ID”]) ), 55 ) ); ?> where $recent[“ID”] is of the ID of the post. If you are already querying the post and already have a WP_Post object, you can simply use this:

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