WP Engineer

WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.

  • More Memory For WordPress – More Information About WordPress

    WordPress is growing and growing, with the growing of WordPress the demand of memory is also growing. The standard use is WordPress 32MByte (see settings.php ), which is not even provided by every hoster today. This is a problem – therefore: Lovely Hoster, give users more memory! But also to use the memory, it requires…

  • Ping Problem?

    Since version 2.7 of WordPress, there have been several issues that Pingbacks in WordPress don’t work. WordPress works with it in the request-function (wp-includes/cron.php), not to be confused with the wp-cron.php. There is a time limit of 0:01 seconds set, which is not sufficient under all conditions. It is known and the developers of WordPress…

  • Caution When Updating To WordPress 2.8

    Thanks to Heiko of WordPress Deutschland and Code Styling Project who brought up the problem on WordPress Deutschland: Users reporting me, that they are missing files, after they automatically updated to WordPress version 2.8 and there were a problem while updating. I checked out the WordPress Trac and found a brand new record, which confirms…

  • Define Your Own WordPress Action Hooks

    WordPress is based on the so-called Hook-System. This serves WordPress, and all extensions to involve functions in a certain place. The Hooks are not only to hook, but can also be used in custom extensions and thus create a better overview and offer additional interfaces for more possibilities to develop. Especially the second option is…

  • Set Meta Links For WordPress Plugins

    In the past I explained in the article „How To Improve WordPress Plugins“ , how you can expand Plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage. One of the suggestions was a simple link to the options page of your Plugin. With WordPress 2.8 the Plugin page will be a little bit different and…

  • Joomla to WordPress – Content Converter!

    More and more people using WordPress as CMS nowadays and replacing systems like Joomla on their website. Marco from solariz.de provides a handy script to convert your Joomla content to your WordPress installation. One Click Solution? No, for sure not. This process is not just click and done. Users, who don’t have any experience with…