WordPress
Posted on February 13, 2012 in Projects with 2 comments.
I recently wrote a plugin for WordPress called WP Most Popular and forgot to announce it on my blog. WP Most Popular is a very simple plugin that aims to excel at one simple task and that is, to give you an accurate indication of your most popular / most read blog posts. The plugin [...]
Posted on February 7, 2012 in Development with 0 comments.
I’ve worked on a number of WordPress sites and custom plugins recently where I have needed to add the TinyMCE editor to a meta box that was added to a post type and/or a custom textarea fields in a plugin. Pre-WordPress 3.0 this was quite difficult and required a bit of hacking, but luckily since [...]
Posted on February 3, 2012 in Development with 0 comments.
Over the past few years I have worked with many different WordPress plugins and themes, both on my own websites and on my clients websites. During this time, I have noticed something that a lot of developers are doing that they shouldn’t be doing. I’m talking about developers not using the WP_DEBUG constant when building [...]
Posted on January 19, 2012 in Development with 2 comments.
There are times when you want to display a list of WordPress posts (or even custom post types) on a page and not have them paginated into multiple different WordPress pages. For example, you may be creating an archive page and instead of showing just the latest 10 posts in your category, you want to [...]
Posted on August 12, 2010 in Development with 1 comment.
When building the theme for this website, I wanted to use the built in WordPress menu system for the top navigational menu. That’s easy enough, I registered the menu in my functions.php file and set it up under Appearance > Menus. The trouble came when I wanted to add a link to the menu called [...]
Posted on July 25, 2010 in Development with 0 comments.
For WordPress 3.2, due in the first half of 2011, we will be raising the minimum required PHP version to 5.2. Why 5.2? Because that’s what the vast majority of WordPress users are using, and it offers substantial improvements over earlier PHP 5 releases. It is also the minimum PHP version that the Drupal and [...]
Posted on January 10, 2009 in General with 16 comments.
If you have moved to a different web host and uploading of various media such as pictures or video in WordPress stopped working then you had the same problem as me about 10 minutes ago. What happened is I was trying to upload images to my last blog post when I kept getting errors to [...]
Posted on September 22, 2008 in Development with 1 comment.
I have been playing around a bit today with my local WordPress installation and just set it up with SVN so that all I have to do is type in one command to upgrade it. It is pretty cool, so I though I would share my new found knowledge. Not only can you keep your [...]
Posted on August 11, 2008 in Development with 0 comments.
One of the more talked about features with the release of WordPress 2.6 was post revisions. WordPress post revisions store all the modifications you make to your posts in your database allowing you to restore older versions of your posts if need be. Now, while this feature is actually quite cool and can also be [...]
Posted on August 8, 2008 in Development with 0 comments.
I must have posted about adding the nofollow tag to WordPress posts about 10 times on various blogs I have run over the years and all those blogs are no longers live, so I thought I would post it once more and just leave it up Adding the nofollow tag to links in your WordPress [...]
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