WP Engineer

Tag: PHP

  • Check for Widgets in Widget-Areas

    Welcome to our 6th door of our Advent Calendar. 🙂 If you use widgets in your theme and this also accommodates a variety of hierarchies, you will quickly realize that it really only makes sense to output HTML for the widgets when the widget area is also used by the user.

  • 5th Post Of Our Advent Calendar: Theme Uninstaller

    Enjoy our 5th post of our Advent Calendar: More and more WordPress themes, especially commercial themes, have an option page. The settings are stored in the database. Only few themes have an uninstall button to delete these settings in your database.

  • 2nd Door Of Our Advent Calendar – Support in WordPress for rel=”canonical”

    WordPress 2.9 will support the attribute rel and his value canonical, you can also read about it on an older post how to integrate the values and what’s about it. Therefore you don’t have to paste the HTML explicitly in your theme. In previous versions of WordPress 2.9, the intergration is easy to do: Putting…

  • Feed Cache in WordPress

    WordPress already offers the possibility of own functions to read feeds and use it in your blog. Since version 2.8 of WordPress, a new feature is in use for that. So there are two ways to work with feeds in WordPress, and in both functions, the data is cached. But this is not always wanted,…

  • Small Security Tipps for your WordPress Install

    WordPress enjoys great popularity and draw more attention of people who want to gain unauthorized access. As with any open-source software developers and attackers alike can view the code. The risk of spam links, the destruction of the blog and other attacks is therefore very high. But this article shows the possibilities to secure WordPress…

  • Use WordPress Login

    WordPress makes it pretty easy to log in and out of WordPress in a theme. Basically with two functions