Blog Action Day: Poverty - Parallels Between Webdesign And Real World!
October 15th, 2008 by Frank • WPengineer Misc • no Comments
Poverty is the topic of todays Blog Action Day. If you thing about poverty, first think what comes in mind are poor people, poor countries, where people don't have anything to eat or a house to live in.
But why does it always have to have a human aspect if you talk about the term of [...]
New Navi-Design in WordPress 2.7
October 14th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress News • 4 Comments
The Design and structure of the coming WordPress version 2.7 were presented several times already and discussed many times. Here are the new structure how the navigation design looks in WordPress 2.7, your thoughts?
Update
The new Design, today (29/10/2008) in beta.
Sticky Function in WordPress 2.7
October 14th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 1 Comment
With WordPress 2.7 you are able to make a post sticky, so this particular post will be showed on the top always. Before that you had to use a plugin.
You can activate this setting for a post in the publish area, where you edit the publish date. It's pretty easy to do.
But what, if you [...]
Secure Include Plugin In WordPress
October 13th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Themes • 1 Comment
Some people use more and other less plugins in WordPress. but it is allways advisable to check via code if a plugin is active or not. That makes sure the theme wouldn't break if the plugin is not active. It's pretty easy to include a little bit code to check for inactivity. I show you [...]
How Core Update in WordPress 2.7 Works?
October 7th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress News • 1 Comment
In recent days, there are more and more information about WordPress version 2.7 coming up. Especially about the automatic upgrade of WordPress.
You already know the update function for plugins, which is very convenient. Now the same for your WordPress installation, one click and you are up to date.
Such a powerful and important function comes along [...]
WPlize - A Class For Options In WordPress
October 7th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 5 Comments
So what is WPlize and what is it for?
WPlize is a class, which access the options table of WordPress and makes it easier to create, edit, get and delete preferences of a plugin or theme in the options table of WordPress. Using this class improves the performances and create a clean code in plugins [...]
WordPress 2.7 Update Core
October 4th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress News • no Comments
The current development version with the core update is available now. Everybody can test it, the development team ask for your feedback. Everybody who doesn't want to check the SVN might be interested in this screenshot.
This function amazed by it's simplicity, click, lean back and relax - done!
WordPress - Return URL
October 2nd, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Hacks • 1 Comment
I already talked in my article Determine Path To Plugin and Content Directories about the possibilities how to keep functions in themes or plugins free from error if you rename a folder, for example wp-content.
Since version 2.6 you can also solve this problem pretty easy with another function.
Use Metaboxes In Your Theme Or Plugin
September 30th, 2008 by Frank • WordPress Tutorials • 1 Comment
Not only the design changed since version 2.5. Also the markup was changed immensely, so there might be changes in the editor area, if you use pluigns, which implements data there.
Here a little workaround, how to keep the design in editor area.
How To Highlight A Slogan In WordPress
September 29th, 2008 by Michael • WordPress Hacks • 4 Comments
In this example I'm talking about how to display a specific company slogan in a certain color. This slogan is found in the header and content.
Of course my client doesn't want to put in span class="foo" every time. This is what it should look like:
Stefan Vervoort: Thanks for this. Will use this in my upcoming
