WP Engineer

WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.

  • Disable Flash Uploader

    Not always is the Flashuploader of WordPress a blessing and several times I preferred to have it switched off. Usually if the blog is not online and is offline behind a proxy and firewall. With the help of the Browser uploaders there is less trouble and therefore easy to abandon the added value of Flash…

  • Change the WordPress Message

    The notifications of WordPress for the author of an article or comments are not always right on the spot according to the needs. WordPress also knew that and created these functions so that it’s easy to adapt notifications to your needs or can completely be replaced. Therefore, I will briefly show how to adjust the…

  • Use WordPress Cache

    WordPress has an internal cache, also for extensions can be used. There are various functions available and you don’t have to create something new, you can easily use the cache functionality of WordPress. To get to know and understand the features a little bit, I use a small example, therefore I cache in the following…

  • Change WordPress Mail Sender

    WordPress makes it easy and fast to add new users in the backend. Since version 2.8 of WordPress, it can send the access information via email. A nice feature, with no additional settings to change the sender of this email. For example the email should be send from the administrator instead from WordPress. Nevertheless, there…

  • 2009 Open Source CMS Award: Vote For WordPress!

    The 2009 Open Source CMS Award nominations have begun. Nominate your favorite CMS for the appropriate categories today and help them win their share of $24,000! The first two years the results were pretty boring and obvious: Drupal first and Joomla 2nd. Would be great to see WordPress on top of it or at least…

  • WordPress Trash Is Coming

    I would like to show you briefly what the new function trash is all about. Users of Gmail are aware of the possibility in a web application: you move content into the trash and the content will be deleted after a certain time. Alternatively, you can also restore the content, always depending on a defined…