WP Engineer

Author: Frank

  • New Plugin to Style your Plugin on WordPress Admin with Default Styles!

    WordPress is developing fast – this also applies to the design of the backend. So it is important not to use your own styles in the admin area and use tags and classes of WordPress. This is the best way you can simplify your work as a developer and you don’t have to test the…

  • WordPress MultiSite, Plugins and Activation

    WordPress MultiSite, Plugins and Activation

    WordPress offers for normal Plugins the hook register_activation_hook();. This is active right after the activation of a Plugin, so you can start small installation scripts. But if we are in a MultiSite environment (old: MultiUser) and put the Plugin in the folder wp-content/mu-plugins, then the hook doesn’t do anything, because the Plugin is automatically activated.…

  • Localization with JavaScript in WordPress

    Creating Plugins and Theme functions with multilanguage capability has been established knowadays.Especially for us as German developers it is a must have. But there are some difficulties if you are using JavaScript, the question is how to provide it multilingual or provide option values in different languages. WordPress offers some possibilities and I like to…

  • Add trash button to WordPress Admin Bar

    Add trash button to WordPress Admin Bar

    Add Custom buttons to WordPress Admin Bar Since version 3.1 of WordPress you have an Admin Bar with several functions. It’s an easy task to add custom buttons to the Admin Bar. I will show you how with an example of a “trash” button. This will be another example how to extend your Admin Bar,…

  • View Blog ID in WordPress Multisite

    When you work quite a bit with WordPress Multisites, sometimes you need the IDs for some functions or Plugins. The easiest way is via the hover effect with your mouse or you use a little code snippet to add a column with the ID in the table view.

  • php-Console with Chrome and WordPress

    Google Browser Chrome and their Chromium project are becoming more popular. Initially it was the speed of Chrome, which made it so popular but now also the extensions are getting in the focus of the users. Nowadays the extension market of Chrome is full of very useful extensions. Of course there are also many enhancements…