Year: 2009
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Amazed By Such A Great Support And Feedback!
Today is our 19th day of our Advent Calendar and we just want to say thank you to our readers, who have given a great feedback to our tips on our Advent Calendar and we have quite a lot more people reading our blog since the start of our calendar, about 30% raise. We also…
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The Ultimative Guide For the_post_thumbnail In WordPress 2.9
WordPress 2.9 RC1 is released and the new post thumbnail function will not change until the final version hopefully. I was chatting a little bit with Sergej Müller last night and we were trying some things out. We found out the following things:
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Sort Posts With The Help Of Custom Fields
Quite often, a WordPress developer likes to have posts sorted according to a custom field. If you would write a SQL-statement, it would be quite complex, since you need to JOIN two database tables (wp_posts und wp_postmeta). But there is a much easier way, if you use the template tags provided by WordPress – in…
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Extend the User Contact Info in WordPress 2.9
Joost de Valk wrote about a month ago a really great article about his idea, to expand the user contact fields (thanks Joost!). In version 2.9 you are able to use this possibility. Here a little example, how you can use this functionality.
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Display Private Posts to Logged in Users
Sometimes I use the function of private posting in WordPress. These contributions can only see the user who has created the post, or the administrator. To show all these article to users who are logged into the system, you can go different ways. But I’d like to highlight just two different ways. With custom fields…
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Use WordPress Cron
WordPress has its own cron to automatically and scheduled run certain themes. Therefore WordPress provides several functions to use the cron. In our first example we send every hour a mail with the help of the WordPress function wp_mail(). FYI, this is just a possibility, please don’t do it on your system! As default, WordPress…