WP Engineer

Tag: PHP

  • Warning Message For Self Customized Plugins

    Now and then you have to modify an existing Plugin for your own special needs. But you still get a message if an update exists for the original Plugin. If you modified the Plugin several month ago and you forgot about it, so you update the Plugin and all your modifications are gone. Most of…

  • Related Posts on Category

    It’s not easy to keep your readers on your website. It’s a challenge to provide new readers valid information, even though they were written a while ago but still up to date. A good idea is to provide posts from the same category as the post, the reader is reading currently. You can create a…

  • Cleanup WordPress Header

    WordPress implements new standard features in the head of the theme since version 2.5, that are always on the hook wp_head. Even in WordPress 2.8 new functions were added. If you don’t need them you can easily disable them by using the function remove_action.

  • Recents Drafts All Authors

    It’s not uncommon that a blog runs by different authors, so it may be useful if you can have a quick look at the drafts of all authors. In our joint blog WP Engineer we created a feed, which keeps us up to date if a new draft of all authors were created. The work…

  • Ping Problem?

    Since version 2.7 of WordPress, there have been several issues that Pingbacks in WordPress don’t work. WordPress works with it in the request-function (wp-includes/cron.php), not to be confused with the wp-cron.php. There is a time limit of 0:01 seconds set, which is not sufficient under all conditions. It is known and the developers of WordPress…

  • Define Your Own WordPress Action Hooks

    WordPress is based on the so-called Hook-System. This serves WordPress, and all extensions to involve functions in a certain place. The Hooks are not only to hook, but can also be used in custom extensions and thus create a better overview and offer additional interfaces for more possibilities to develop. Especially the second option is…