WP Engineer

Tag: PHP

  • Deactivate WordPress Default Widgets

    You do not always want to have all the widgets active, which comes within the WordPress core. You can disable the unneccessary Widgets in your functions.php of your theme with a small function. The following syntax will switch off all the standard widgets. It should therefore be adjusted depending on your requirements: // unregister all…

  • Disable Flash Uploader

    Not always is the Flashuploader of WordPress a blessing and several times I preferred to have it switched off. Usually if the blog is not online and is offline behind a proxy and firewall. With the help of the Browser uploaders there is less trouble and therefore easy to abandon the added value of Flash…

  • Change the WordPress Message

    The notifications of WordPress for the author of an article or comments are not always right on the spot according to the needs. WordPress also knew that and created these functions so that it’s easy to adapt notifications to your needs or can completely be replaced. Therefore, I will briefly show how to adjust the…

  • Use WordPress Cache

    WordPress has an internal cache, also for extensions can be used. There are various functions available and you don’t have to create something new, you can easily use the cache functionality of WordPress. To get to know and understand the features a little bit, I use a small example, therefore I cache in the following…

  • Change WordPress Mail Sender

    WordPress makes it easy and fast to add new users in the backend. Since version 2.8 of WordPress, it can send the access information via email. A nice feature, with no additional settings to change the sender of this email. For example the email should be send from the administrator instead from WordPress. Nevertheless, there…

  • WordPress Updates via FTP on Windows XAMPP installations

    Sometimes I have the need to simulate an ordinary hoster environment that behaves the same way as a real one would do. This also includes the automatic update behavior WordPress shows for Core, Plugins or Themes. In most cases this is useful for testing purpose but also to create tutorial screencasts like “How to use…