WordPress offers a pseudo-cronjob functionality, which allows the developer to execute scheduled events. For example, the whole Update Notification does it. In these so-called Scheduled Events you can define your own jobs. Thereby you should however pay attention to one important thing: time. The wp-cron.php works outside the core and[...]
There are still some third-class web hosters who do allow the .htaccess files … and turn off the standard module mod_rewrite. But without mod_rewrite, WordPress cannot use pretty permylinks, right? Wrong! There’s another directive we can use: ErrorDocument. ErrorDocument 404 /index.php This will do almost the same as the rewrite[...]
WordPress has a nice editor, with which are several hundreds of articles written daily. But in my opinion the editor has an usability issue. Every time you save a post the scroll position of the editor will be on top again. If you want to continue writing the post you[...]
Filters are often used for removing content. For example, if you want to hide the admin bar you can do the following: function hide_admin_bar() { return FALSE; } add_filter( 'show_admin_bar' , 'hide_admin_bar' ); It’s a bit tedious to define an additional function just to return “FALSE”. Since version 3.0 WordPress[...]
Usually you don’t need comments on pages. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t offer a separate option to leave comments on posts on and turn them off for pages. If your theme calls comments_template(); in its page.php and you don’t want to break automatic updates, you cannot just remove the function call, because[...]
Same procedure as every year! Most of our readers already know of our Advent Calendar tradition, which we have every year before Christmas. What exactly an Advent Calendar is all about, that is explained on this post. We open a door every day, which contains a little gift for our[...]
