WP Engineer

WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.

  • Exclude A Category From Turn Off Comments Automatically

    Exclude A Category From Turn Off Comments Automatically

    Thanks to our post New Ideas For 2010? Now It’s Your Turn! we got an email form one of our loyal sponsors Chris Coyier.

  • Display Always All Subpages in Sidebar

    We hope you had a great start in 2010 and some relaxing holidays the last couple days. Our first post in 2010 is about displaying subpages in a sidebar. Anyone who uses WordPress for company websites, has mostly to do with static pages that are in an hierarchical tree. To access these pages for the…

  • 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…