Tag: development

  • Lifespan of a WordPress version

    The new version 3.6 has been released much later than anticipated; the release has been estimated for the end of April and has finally been released in early August. Therefore v3.5.x stayed the freshest available version for 234 days. How does this compare to the previous versions? On average a WordPress version was replaced by…

  • WordPress Pulse? – Heartbeat API

    With WordPress 3.6, there will be a new API – Heartbeat. On Ticket 23216 in Trac all discussions and information be gathered together. Because Heartbeat may also have influences for users, here are some words and clues. Heartbeat is introduced to various activities, such as Autosave, locks of articles and to handle logon and logoff…

  • WordPress Dropins

    Plugins are pretty popular, since it is easy to adjust your blog or website to your liking with Plugins. Less popular are Dropins. WordPress alows to replace some functions with Dropins. The list of possibilities isn’t big and not well documented. But I like to use Dropins to enhance the possibilties of caching, especially APC…

  • Change content of WordPress Editor Buttons

    Not every user likes the default settings how some buttons are displayed on the WordPress editor. As of right now, there is no possibility to adjust it directly via a filter. The following source code describes a solution to change the link buttons and their content to easily set links with custom values. The small…

  • Hide Welcome Panel for WordPress Multisite

    With a major release update of WordPress, everytime all new functions will be displayed after updating. Basically a good idea, which displays all new features on one page. However, this is not always intentional. In the corporate environment, large groups of users aren’t interested in it, so that this screen only provides additional work for…

  • Set WordPress Featured Image Automatically

    Anyone who works in his WordPress blog with a picture and always wants or need to put one on his post – depending on the layout implementation, might like this small Plugin, which can do the setting automatically. If not a Featured Image is set it grabs the first image that was uploaded to the…