Tag: development
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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…
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Fix Empty Searches
One minor problem for any web site is duplicate content: the same resource is available under different URIs. Yes, we have <link rel=canonical>, but anything that prevents such cases is better. Today, let’s look at something, that most professionals never see: empty searches. You offer a search input field, and someone hits the submit button…
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Category And Archive Dropdown With Unobtrusive JavaScript
A good website works when a user comes along with JavaScript disabled, just as well as with scripting enabled. You separate the JS layer of the site from anything else (and waived for example, onclick in HTML) and places the scripts in a way that only improves the already existing functionality of the site. So…
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Add Menus to the Admin Bar of WordPress
The new WordPress admin bar facilitates the access of backend and frontend to areas of the back end. Of course, this new control element of WordPress is expandable and can be adapted to the needs of the user. In some areas and for various needs, quick access to different areas is certainly interesting. The newly…
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The WordPress Exif-Meta-Datas
WordPress stores when uploading files, some data in the meta data – the metadata. If there are pictures involved and these files contain EXIF data, then it outputs some EXIF data which can be used. For example, as additional information about the picture in a photo blog. No matter what, and how you want to…
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Use WordPress Post Thumbnail as Background image
Now and then you need in a post or page a catchy image. For editors the thumbnail function is quite comfortable to assign an image to a post or a page. Therefore it is worthwhile to use this picture as a background image for the post. However, it is much better if the image is…