WP Engineer

Tag: WP

  • Set options on activation Themes

    The Photo Blog Theme Greyfoto has been updated and I wanted to make sure that the settings of WordPress are as I need them for the theme. Therefore must be written some data in the database when activate. Currently there is no hook for this, as is known for Plugins. The discussion on WP-Hacker-List was…

  • Add File Types for Mediathek

    In WordPress 2.8.5 the whitelist of allowed MIME types for downloads will be valid for administrators the first time. This is a step towards security and you can, with the help of a constant, upload all data types. define ( ‘ALLOW_UNFILTERED_UPLOADS’, true); Who has implemented several projects already with WordPress probably had experienced that a…

  • Check If Required Plugin Is Active

    It might be, that your own written Plugin requires another stand alone Plugin to be active. For example if you like to offer a version with enhanced functionality of a Plugin. There are certainly a variety of usage and the implementation is not difficult. For the implementation, we need the active Plugins, which are found…

  • Disable Flash Uploader

    Not always is the Flashuploader of WordPress a blessing and several times I preferred to have it switched off. Usually if the blog is not online and is offline behind a proxy and firewall. With the help of the Browser uploaders there is less trouble and therefore easy to abandon the added value of Flash…

  • Change the WordPress Message

    The notifications of WordPress for the author of an article or comments are not always right on the spot according to the needs. WordPress also knew that and created these functions so that it’s easy to adapt notifications to your needs or can completely be replaced. Therefore, I will briefly show how to adjust the…

  • Use WordPress Cache

    WordPress has an internal cache, also for extensions can be used. There are various functions available and you don’t have to create something new, you can easily use the cache functionality of WordPress. To get to know and understand the features a little bit, I use a small example, therefore I cache in the following…