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  • Advent Calendar – WordPress Editor: Preserve the scroll position

    Advent Calendar – WordPress Editor: Preserve the scroll position

    WordPress has a nice editor, with which are several hundreds of articles written daily. But in my opinion the editor has an usability issue. Every time you save a post the scroll position of the editor will be on top again. If you want to continue writing the post you have first to find he…

  • Advent Calendar – Predefined callback functions for filters

    Advent Calendar – Predefined callback functions for filters

    Filters are often used for removing content. For example, if you want to hide the admin bar you can do the following: function hide_admin_bar() { return FALSE; } add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’ , ‘hide_admin_bar’ ); It’s a bit tedious to define an additional function just to return “FALSE“. Since version 3.0 WordPress provides various functions to shorten…

  • Extend the TwentyEleven Navigation with your Social Icons

    Extend the TwentyEleven Navigation with your Social Icons

    In this little tutorial we show how to add in the navigation of the TwentyEleven Theme our RSS Feed, a link with icons to our Twitter page and to our Facebook profile. Without writing a single line of PHP code. You are able to accomplish this with the WordPress Menu. First we go in the…

  • Advent Calendar- How to disable comments for WordPress pages in any theme

    Advent Calendar- How to disable comments for WordPress pages in any theme

    Usually you don’t need comments on pages. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t offer a separate option to leave comments on posts on and turn them off for pages. If your theme calls comments_template(); in its page.php and you don’t want to break automatic updates, you cannot just remove the function call, because it will be overwritten with…

  • Advent Calendar – Only Update The Core – The Fast Way!

    Advent Calendar – Only Update The Core – The Fast Way!

    Same procedure as every year! Most of our readers already know of our Advent Calendar tradition, which we have every year before Christmas. What exactly an Advent Calendar is all about, that is explained on this post. We open a door every day, which contains a little gift for our readers, by providing them a…

  • Simple Cache with the WordPress Transient API

    Today is our last post of our Advents Calendar, we hope you enjoyed it. WP Engineer wishes a Merry Christmas to our readers! WordPress has an API that is explicitly designed for time-controlled storage of data – the Transient API. This API is designed to cache any data in the database and very simple to…