WP Engineer

Author: Frank

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Deactivate WordPress Default Widgets

    You do not always want to have all the widgets active, which comes within the WordPress core. You can disable the unneccessary Widgets in your functions.php of your theme with a small function. The following syntax will switch off all the standard widgets. It should therefore be adjusted depending on your requirements: // unregister all…

  • Disable Flash Uploader

    Not always is the Flashuploader of WordPress a blessing and several times I preferred to have it switched off. Usually if the blog is not online and is offline behind a proxy and firewall. With the help of the Browser uploaders there is less trouble and therefore easy to abandon the added value of Flash…

  • Change the WordPress Message

    The notifications of WordPress for the author of an article or comments are not always right on the spot according to the needs. WordPress also knew that and created these functions so that it’s easy to adapt notifications to your needs or can completely be replaced. Therefore, I will briefly show how to adjust the…