WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.
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Add File Types for Mediathek
In WordPress 2.8.5 the whitelist of allowed MIME types for downloads will be valid for administrators the first time. This is a step towards security and you can, with the help of a constant, upload all data types. define ( ‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true); Who has implemented several projects already with WordPress probably had experienced that a…
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New Feature for WordPress 2.9 – WordPress Image Editor
We already wrote about some new features, such as new filter and the Trash-function in WordPress. It has long been known that WordPress 2.9 will add some features for image editing – the users want these features, right in the core and not as a Plugin. You can get a first insight into the current…
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WordPress 2.9 new excerpt filters
In WordPress 2.9 there will be two new filters to adjust an excerpt (the_excerpt). Previously with the_excerpt cut off at a maximum of 55 words and add a […]. These filters are in WordPress 2.9 expandable. To change the values, you write two functions in your theme functions.php:
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Check If Required Plugin Is Active
It might be, that your own written Plugin requires another stand alone Plugin to be active. For example if you like to offer a version with enhanced functionality of a Plugin. There are certainly a variety of usage and the implementation is not difficult. For the implementation, we need the active Plugins, which are found…
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Themes and automatic_feed_links
Since WordPress 2.8, there is the function automatic_feed_links() in the function.php. Which writes the link elements for the RSS protocols in the header of the document. The advantage of this feature is, you do not need to worry about whether a change comes in the Feed-protocoll in a new version of WordPress, removed or a…