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Tag: Plugin

  • Add WordPress Dashboard Widgets

    Finally WordPress 2.7 is coming along with widgets in the dashboard area, so it will be possible to adjust your dashboard as you like. For Plugin or theme authors it’s even more interesting, since they can give the users additional value to their Plugins. They can offer information from their Plugin directly on the dashboard.…

  • Secure Include Plugin In WordPress

    Some people use more and other less Plugins in WordPress. but it is allways advisable to check via code if a Plugin is active or not. That makes sure the theme wouldn’t break if the Plugin is not active. It’s pretty easy to include a little bit code to check for inactivity. I show you…

  • WPlize – A Class For Options In WordPress

    So what is WPlize and what is it for? WPlize is a class, which access the options table of WordPress and makes it easier to create, edit, get and delete preferences of a Plugin or theme in the options table of WordPress. Using this class improves the performances and create a clean code in Plugins…

  • WordPress – Return URL

    I already talked in my article Determine Path To Plugin and Content Directories about the possibilities how to keep functions in themes or Plugins free from error if you rename a folder, for example wp-content. Since version 2.6 you can also solve this problem pretty easy with another function.

  • Use Metaboxes In Your Theme Or Plugin

    Not only the design changed since version 2.5. Also the markup was changed immensely, so there might be changes in the editor area, if you use pluigns, which implements data there. Here a little workaround, how to keep the design in editor area.

  • WordPress Plugin Deinstall Data Automatically

    In version 2.7 of WordPress you will have the possibility to delete a Plugin directly in your backend, see version 2.7 info. To delete also the Plugin data from your database, the Plugin author has to accomplish some requirements. I hope the following tutorial will help some Plugin authors and they will implement this feature…