WP Engineer

Tag: WordPress

  • Publishing Extend of WordPress

    Not always you want to solve things like WordPress provides and you seek for a different solution. Sometimes you don’t need various applications of the backend to publish posts. A simple example would be a form, no matter where, where the contents of the form should automatically published on your WordPress blog. Alternatively, you could…

  • 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…

  • WordPress 2.8 Feature Password

    WordPress 2.8 is going to be published soon, even though they do not have a date yet. Nevertheless, another small insight into a new feature. After a new installation of WordPress, you get informed that you are logged in with the default password and this can be a security risk. It is therefore strongly recommended…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • WordPress Plugin-Path

    When working on a Plugin I noticed that the path to its files is not always complete, which depends on the WordPress version. With WordPress Version 2.8 the function plugins_url() extends and it can be incorporate in a much cleaner way, no maintenance of the folder required, where the Plugin is put. An example will…