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  • Adding Settings to an Existing Page Using the Settings API

    When it comes to saving options and settings in WordPress, you all probably know and use the Options API: add_option(), update_option(), get_option() and delete_option(). These functions are the first layer of another, broader and powerful, yet under-used, API: the Settings API. Goal of this Tutorial Some time ago I wrote a quick tutorial on how…

  • Control WordPress Nav Menu via Custom Fields

    WordPress 3.0 also includes the menus, in addition to a number of other new features. Normally you generate a menu automatically by creating pages, but under Appereance / Menus you can create your own menu and assign a place where it replaces the normal menu. But whoever currently uses WordPress as a CMS and blog…

  • WordPress Pagination Again

    Some days ago, Frank wrote a post about Custom Pagination without WordPress Plugins. Jay comment, that something like this already exists (since Version 2.1). We don’t know everything. 😉

  • The WordPress Exif-Meta-Datas

    The WordPress Exif-Meta-Datas

    WordPress stores when uploading files, some data in the meta data – the metadata. If there are pictures involved and these files contain EXIF data, then it outputs some EXIF data which can be used. For example, as additional information about the picture in a photo blog. No matter what, and how you want to…

  • Use WordPress Post Thumbnail as Background image

    Use WordPress Post Thumbnail as Background image

    Now and then you need in a post or page a catchy image. For editors the thumbnail function is quite comfortable to assign an image to a post or a page. Therefore it is worthwhile to use this picture as a background image for the post. However, it is much better if the image is…

  • Delete all Feed Cache via SQL in WordPress

    The Feed-Cache of WordPress is in the database, it’s in the table options and sometimes you like to delete it. With a little SQL this is done quite quickly – but be careful, there is no way back! Within WordPress I do it with the help of the Plugin Adminer, which allows a complete mySQL…