WP Engineer

Tag: WordPress Plugins

  • Top Level Menu In WordPress 2.7

    I explained in one of my previous posts how to add a nice icon to your Plugin in the backend are of WordPress 2.7. Some of my readers on my German blog asked how to add an icon to menus in the top level. I thought there are more readers interested to know about it,…

  • 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…

  • Determine Path To Plugin and Content Directories

    If you like to write a Plugin and you want to keep it downward compatible, then check beforehand the constants, because since WordPress version 2.6 you can rename the folder wp-content and this will also change the path to the Plugin folder. Just a few lines of code are enough and you can work with…