WP Engineer

Author: Michael

  • New Screenshots Of WordPress 3.0

    Unfortunately we don’t have time right now to write new posts, but at least we want you to show some new screenshots of WordPress 3.0. WordPress 3.0 Background settings Now you have the option to set positon, repeat and attachment. WordPress 3.0 Header Image 8 header images are available in the new theme TwentyTen. WordPress…

  • WordPress 3.0 Custom Background Support

    In WordPress 3.0, it will have, additional to the Custom Header Image support, also a Custom Background Support. A first snapshot is in the current trunk. To use the functionality, the theme needs in functions.php this line: add_custom_background(); After that, there is in your backend under Appearance the menu Custom Background available. After uploading an…

  • WordPress: Useful Default Configuration Settings Via Plugin

    Everybody who installs WordPress quite often knows the problem: You always have to do the same adjustments, for example deleting the Hello World post. That cost time and money. Our friend Thomas Scholz alias toscho had a simple but genius idea, he puts all needed option settings in a Plugin. Just activate the Plugin, deactivate…

  • WordPress 3.0 Specific Author Templates

    In WordPress 3.0 it will be possible to use specific author templates. The function get_author_template() has been expanded in wp-includes/theme.php. Now you can create a author-michael.php or author-123.php, which will be called via the WordPress Template Hierarchy in connection to the author with user_nicename michael or ID 123. Basically the same funtionality as we known…

  • WordPress 3.0 Multisite Settings

    Exclusively 2 Screenshots of the new WordPress 3.0 Multisite Settings. You can find them under Options->Network: After you set the settings, you receive in a second step the content for wp-config.php and .htaccess. Additionally you have to create the subfolder blogs.dir in wp-content , where you put the media-files for each blog. Since WordPress 3.0…

  • Display Always All Subpages in Sidebar

    We hope you had a great start in 2010 and some relaxing holidays the last couple days. Our first post in 2010 is about displaying subpages in a sidebar. Anyone who uses WordPress for company websites, has mostly to do with static pages that are in an hierarchical tree. To access these pages for the…