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WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.

  • Customize Your WordPress-Feeds

    WordPress offers several different feeds for your reader, but not always is their desired format available. In some cases the reader has the desire to receive just specific news of a website and not all of them. WordPress is flexible enough to meet these requirements. How you can implement this via function in a theme…

  • Disable WordPress Feed

    A really good feature for many websites and already a standard on many blogs is the possibility to subscribe via feed for new posts. But if you use WordPress for a specific purpose, for example as a CMS, it’s possible that you really don’t need that feature because it has no extra value for your…

  • 10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme

    This is the title of Joost de Valk post, which I don’t agree completely, some points are too stiff and should be considered and well thought through by the author ahead of the actual coding. I made some thoughts and wrote down how I would start programming a perfect theme. Please don’t hesitate to comment…

  • Help To Win The Coolest WordPress Competition!

    Yes, our blog is cool enough! WPengineer participates on the contest for the coolest WordPress Competition.wpwebhost.com is searching for the best blog that is writing about WordPress. Since we are talking quite a bit about WordPress on our blog we thought we give a shot and join the competition. Big prices are on the table,…

  • Add WordPress Dashboard Widgets

    Finally WordPress 2.7 is coming along with widgets in the dashboard area, so it will be possible to adjust your dashboard as you like. For Plugin or theme authors it’s even more interesting, since they can give the users additional value to their Plugins. They can offer information from their Plugin directly on the dashboard.…

  • WordPress FTP Data With Constant

    Since version 2.5 it’s possible to update your Plugins automatically. It’s necessary to input your FTP information before you update your Plugin. It is very popular and an easy process, but I like to upload the newest version via my FTP client. How sure is the use of your FTP login information in your WordPress…