Month: December 2009

  • New Ideas For 2010? Now It’s Your Turn!

    We wish all our readers a Happy, Successful and Healthy New Year! We hope you enjoyed WP Engineer 2009 and you will keep reading our blog in the common years! To make WP Engineer more interesting for you, we would like to hear from you, what you like to read on our blog!

  • 24th Door – The WPE Quit Smoking Widget

    For the last door in our Advent Calendar I had something special in mind. This year is coming to an end and I’m sure some of our readers want to quit smoking next year. To support their goal, I created a WP Engineer Quit Smoking Widget. 😉

  • WordPress Widget-Areas with Description

    Using WordPress version 2.9, there is now a possibility that we can write more detailed description for the widget areas. This is especially interesting when you define different widget areas, depending of categories or because the theme author defines various widget areas, that allows adjustments in more areas than just the sidebar. I do this…

  • 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…