WP Engineer

WordPress Hacks, Tips, Tutorials from the last decade.

  • Dynamic Copyright Year In Your Footer

    The new year is already some days old but in many websites you still can see in their footer “copyright © 2006-2008 mysite.com”. Yeah Andy, on your blog too 😉 For everyone, who changes the year in their footer manually every year, here is a little tip:

  • WordPress – An Outlook For 2009

    So far, the users with the current version are very happy, even if WordPress abandons a certain circle of users. Since version 2.7 users with a small web package and not enough RAM are getting in trouble. The new functionality and comfort in the new backend is fairly highly loaded, so that users with RAM…

  • Update Informations Only for Admins

    If you only want to let users, who are privileged to receive information about updates and plugins, you should copy the following code to your functions.php of your theme. These users have to have the right “edit plugin” (edit_plugins) to receive updates. Alternative: use the plugin Secure WordPress, the plugin has inside the function to…

  • Adding A Private Page Into The Navigation

    If you use pages which have the state private, they will not be shown in the navigation. Nevertheless it can make sense to show this specific page in the navigation, if you want to provide easy access to this page for your users. The page should only appear to privileged users for sure. I will…

  • Change Your WordPress Backend

    The new version of WordPress 2.7 is out – that has certainly noticed everyone. But still, people thinking if they even like to upgrade, since the admin area is totally different now and missing its usual navigation. But there is no need to hesitate, you can get your trusted admin interface back or you just…

  • Antispam Bee WordPress Plugin

    My friend Sergej Müller, Author of wpSEO, published a new WordPress Antispam Plugin . I had the pleasure to try out this little bee in a beta version on WPengineer.com. Since the installation on December 31st 2008 we didn’t have one spambot! His solution is very simple but genius, this little Plugin goes a complete…