WP Engineer

Author: Frank

  • About WordPress Post Thumbnail

    This is a complement to our previous post The Ultimative Guide For the_post_thumbnail In WordPress 2.9. In WordPress Version 2.9 probably the most discussed feature is the post thumbnail. Important for this function, it is only working when it is explicitly enabled in the theme. This can be done with the following little snippet in…

  • Quick View on WordPress Settings

    In all versions of WordPress, there is the possibility to view all settings within the admin area of WordPress, but a menu link doesn’t exist. The page options.php enables to have a quick look at various options and also allows you to save settings. However, it must be said, WordPress stores more data in serialized…

  • Optimize Syndication Frequenzy

    Today a standard becomes 9 years old. But hardly ever noticed: The Syndication-Module 1.4.1 of RDF Site Summary 1.0. What is it good for? Apparently some of you publishing posts less than 10 times per day. Shame on you … not! WordPress, however, assumes that you can not even stop, so write it in the…

  • Display Private Posts to Logged in Users

    Sometimes I use the function of private posting in WordPress. These contributions can only see the user who has created the post, or the administrator. To show all these article to users who are logged into the system, you can go different ways. But I’d like to highlight just two different ways. With custom fields…

  • Use WordPress Cron

    WordPress has its own cron to automatically and scheduled run certain themes. Therefore WordPress provides several functions to use the cron. In our first example we send every hour a mail with the help of the WordPress function wp_mail(). FYI, this is just a possibility, please don’t do it on your system! As default, WordPress…

  • Update RSS Language Value

    And today opens the 13th door of our Advent Calendar. You cannot only use a language key for your blog, but also for your feed:<language>en</language>. WordPress also has provided an option, but not easy to maintain. However, it is advisable to use the key according to the codec and therefore I show you some ways.