WP Engineer

Category: WordPress Hacks

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Strange Things With Sticky Posts

    Frank wrote in one of his last posts about the new sticky functionality in WordPress 2.7. Right now I’m working on a special theme and I noticed some strange things with sticky posts.

  • The Perfect Title Tag

    In Version 2.5 Template Tag wp_title got an update, therefore Plugins became useless for that. By the way, the code came from the Plugin „Optimal Title“. The title tag is in the header, therefore in header.php . The following syntax works in all WP-versions, but it’s not a perfect way for WordPress higher than 2.5.…