Archive for November, 2008
Cheat Sheet for Regular Expressions
November 27th, 2008 by Frank • WPengineer Misc • 1 Comment
Regular Expressions can really be a pain in the ass – so any help is normally welcome. Today I will present a Cheat Sheet by AddedBytes.com which is really helpful when dealing with regular expressions. I'm proud to announce this sheet, because they also have a variety of other great cheat sheets available for download [...]
Use JavaScript Libraries In And Of WordPress
November 25th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Tutorials • 3 Comments
If you develop in and for WordPress, it's advisable to use a library of the core and a plugin for the the library with the desired effect.
Same for theme and plugin authors. If you use a function of WordPress to implement JavaScript, you will have less complications and the compatibility between plugins is much higher.
I [...]
Moving Your WordPress Blog To A New Domain
November 21st, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Tutorials • 8 Comments
Many blog owners are scared and hesitated to move their blog to another domain because they fear to lose their visitors, downtime and other complications. I will show you now how to get rid off this fear and how to avoid problems while you moving.
We Made It On The List Of The Coolest Blog Powered By WordPress
November 19th, 2008 by Alex • WPengineer Misc • 3 Comments
Yee haw!!! Today we made it on the top 20 list of the coolest blog powered by WordPress on WP Freedom Blog, thanks guys!!!
Now it's time to vote for the coolest blog ever. It would be a great support if you help us to be the one. Just go to their voting list and vote [...]
Easy Way For Advertisement In WordPress
November 19th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • no Comments
Since version 2.5 WordPress introduced the shortcode API, more detail about it in our article „WordPress Shortcode API“. Recently I had a task which is surely common, but with the help of shortcode API and custom fields very easy to solve. I had to include some advertisements (in german: Werbung) into some articles.
In each article [...]
WordPress Shortcode API
November 17th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Tutorials • 4 Comments
WordPress 2.5 extended the tagging function and added many little features. Among others the shortcode API for example, where you can add strings to a content in a fast and easy way. This makes the call from other functions in plugins or theme functions much more easier.
The possibilities of shortcodes are immense, many other applications [...]
How To Improve WordPress Plugins
November 13th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Plugins • 11 Comments
With the upcoming WordPress release version 2.7 the menu changes to the vertical. This offers several features to the author which we already mentioned in some other posts. But this time I explicitly address plugin authors and ask them to make their plugins more user friendly in terms of usability. I will show only two [...]
List All Users in WordPress
November 12th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 3 Comments
The possibility in WordPress to display all users is not available in a standard installation. To get a simple list of all users, you can use following function. To display just specific user groups or users, there are many template tags available to do so, go to WordPress-Codex - Author Tags.
Publish The Feed Later
November 10th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 32 Comments
Some of you know this problem already, you publish a post and while you are publishing you notice an error. That's very annoying, the error is in your feed an published to the whole world.
That happened quite often to me, my fellow readers a writing comments so fast, right after publishing, to tell me about [...]
Quick Tipps For WordPress Query
November 6th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 2 Comments
The loop of WordPress is a powerful tool. Most users just use the standard loop. But you can adjust and use loops very good for your requirements. I showed an example in my last post for feeds.
I will show some other examples, which are barely used, but often asked by users, in this post. Short [...]
Stefan Vervoort: Thanks for this. Will use this in my upcoming
