Month: December 2009

  • Configure WordPress Trash

    Check out our 7th door of our Advent Calendar. WordPress Trash will have it’s premiere in version 2.9. Now you can move every content, comment, post, pages, media and link to trash. It’s quite the same function as you know from other online applications or operating systems.

  • Check for Widgets in Widget-Areas

    Welcome to our 6th door of our Advent Calendar. 🙂 If you use widgets in your theme and this also accommodates a variety of hierarchies, you will quickly realize that it really only makes sense to output HTML for the widgets when the widget area is also used by the user.

  • 5th Post Of Our Advent Calendar: Theme Uninstaller

    Enjoy our 5th post of our Advent Calendar: More and more WordPress themes, especially commercial themes, have an option page. The settings are stored in the database. Only few themes have an uninstall button to delete these settings in your database.

  • New Category Templates in WordPress 2.9

    Until now you had to use a query in your theme or a Plugin to adjust the design or the content according to a specific category. In version 2.9 the template hierarchy gets expanded and you can create with the help of a slug an own template.

  • 3rd Door – Today The Advice: Don’t Steal Premium WordPress Themes

    A friend called me and informed me that he had found two links in his footer to spam websites. He “found” the premium theme, which he was using “on the Internet”. I have looked at the theme again and the footer.php was consisted of the following (shortened by me):

  • 2nd Door Of Our Advent Calendar – Support in WordPress for rel=”canonical”

    WordPress 2.9 will support the attribute rel and his value canonical, you can also read about it on an older post how to integrate the values and what’s about it. Therefore you don’t have to paste the HTML explicitly in your theme. In previous versions of WordPress 2.9, the intergration is easy to do: Putting…