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Tag: Advent Calendar

  • Quick View on WordPress Settings

    In all versions of WordPress, there is the possibility to view all settings within the admin area of WordPress, but a menu link doesn’t exist. The page options.php enables to have a quick look at various options and also allows you to save settings. However, it must be said, WordPress stores more data in serialized…

  • Optimize Syndication Frequenzy

    Today a standard becomes 9 years old. But hardly ever noticed: The Syndication-Module 1.4.1 of RDF Site Summary 1.0. What is it good for? Apparently some of you publishing posts less than 10 times per day. Shame on you … not! WordPress, however, assumes that you can not even stop, so write it in the…

  • Amazed By Such A Great Support And Feedback!

    Today is our 19th day of our Advent Calendar and we just want to say thank you to our readers, who have given a great feedback to our tips on our Advent Calendar and we have quite a lot more people reading our blog since the start of our calendar, about 30% raise. We also…

  • The Ultimative Guide For the_post_thumbnail In WordPress 2.9

    WordPress 2.9 RC1 is released and the new post thumbnail function will not change until the final version hopefully. I was chatting a little bit with Sergej Müller last night and we were trying some things out. We found out the following things:

  • Sort Posts With The Help Of Custom Fields

    Quite often, a WordPress developer likes to have posts sorted according to a custom field. If you would write a SQL-statement, it would be quite complex, since you need to JOIN two database tables (wp_posts und wp_postmeta). But there is a much easier way, if you use the template tags provided by WordPress – in…

  • Extend the User Contact Info in WordPress 2.9

    Joost de Valk wrote about a month ago a really great article about his idea, to expand the user contact fields (thanks Joost!). In version 2.9 you are able to use this possibility. Here a little example, how you can use this functionality.