WP Engineer

Author: Michael

  • Themes and automatic_feed_links

    Since WordPress 2.8, there is the function automatic_feed_links() in the function.php. Which writes the link elements for the RSS protocols in the header of the document. The advantage of this feature is, you do not need to worry about whether a change comes in the Feed-protocoll in a new version of WordPress, removed or a…

  • WordPress 2.8 Single Post Navigation Widget

    Since WordPress 2.8, there is a new Widget API. In our post Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget With The New Widget API, I have used a simple example to describe how to build a Widget. This time Heiko and I’ve created something more complex.

  • WP Engineer With A New Member

    Last weekend we all had the opportunity to meet at Frank’s house. A weekend without Internet, Skype and Twitter. Only interresting talks, a lot of beer and barbecue.

  • Hide The Comment Pagination

    Ever since version 2.7 WordPress offers the option to adjust the number of comments on each page. From SEO’s perspective, this is not very smart, as there were many articles and discussions about this topic in the past. If you turn off the comment pagination, the empty HTML fragment is still in the source code…

  • Some More Details About The WP System Health Plugin

    My friend Heiko Rabe wrote this Plugin, which shows all system relevant data of a WordPress intallation. It’s a pure information tool, you cannot change any data or settings. The Plugin shows 4 tabs with information about the “System”, “PHP” version, some “WordPress” functions, constants and “Database”.

  • Correct Pagination with get_posts

    If you like to show your posts a little bit different on your homepage or category page. For example having a different amount of posts showing on these pages, as it is set in your admin, you will get a problem with the pagination function. Because WordPress and several paging Plugins use $wp_query->max_num_pages.