Tag: Plugin
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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…
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Set Meta Links For WordPress Plugins
In the past I explained in the article „How To Improve WordPress Plugins“ , how you can expand Plugins with useful functions and therefore optimize their usage. One of the suggestions was a simple link to the options page of your Plugin. With WordPress 2.8 the Plugin page will be a little bit different and…
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WordPress Plugin Compatibility Checker
Right before the upcoming WordPress 2.8 you also should check out if all your Plugins are compatible with Version 2.8 before you upgrade. There is a great website which includes over 5000 Plugins, where you can see if the Plugin will work with WordPress 2.8. Also very interesting for all Plugin developer, you can see…
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FirePHP and WordPress
WordPress uses a whole series of constants and variables that may be useful. Even better if you know what is in there. A clean output of the contents can be realized with the Firefox add-on FirePHP for Firebug. To symplify and accelerate my development, I always have a plugin activated, which outputs various contents, directly…
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Analyze WordPress Performance – Plugin!
Recently Joost mentioned in a post on yoast.com, how he used my Plugin “Debug Queries” to optimize his WordPress database performance (BTW, thanks for the patch). Performance of WordPress can be quickly and easily negative effected by using some Plugins. You don’t have to be an expert to know, that more function will provide more…
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Bye Bye my-hacks.php?
Soon the new 2.8 version of WordPress will be released, but the hype is not as much as it was some years ago, when version 2.0 was released for example. But the new version brings many new things, fixes a large number of problems and WordPress is in my view, more open than in the…