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WordPress Tricks & Hacks

Here’s a bunch of WorPress tricks you’ll surely find useful: WordPress Configuration Tricks, 20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes), 10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks.

WordPress URL rewriting

Understanding how WordPress rewrites its URLs is not as easy as Apache’s mod_rewrite. It is much easier to instead use available plugins as a baseline if you were to take advantage of the WordPress URL rewriting engine. This plugin that provides an easy hack for these rewrites should do the job. I know I’ll be [...]

Secure WordPress upgrades

I’m sure that like a lot of bloggers out there, you’re using WordPress to power your blogs. And because WordPress is now the de facto choice for self–hosted blogging apps, it is now a favorite target for various security attacks. It’s like every ill–willed hacker is busy trying to find vulnerabilities in it.
The recent news [...]

WordPress themes made for developers

Looking for WordPress themes that are best suited for your customized designs? Here’s a list of custom themes for us developers that should help us get our blog designs running almost instantly.
The best about these themes, especially Sandbox, is that there already are several themes and designs based off it and you can use these [...]

First step in using WordPress 2.6

Every other sites has reported on the release of WordPress 2.6, just like I did in my other blog. However, there’s something we are all overlooking — what are we supposed to do once we install/upgrade to 2.6?
Well here’s my first step: go to Settings → Writing and under the Remote Publishing options, make sure [...]

WordPress 2.6 & Plugins

WordPress 2.6 is almost here with the availability of Release Candidate 1, so if you’re a plugin writer you might need to see some changes on how plugins behave in the new version.

WordPress 2.5.1 + more fixes

Not too long after WordPress 2.5 was released, update 2.5.1 followed soon thereafter containing significant updates for the lots of new things in the 2.5 series. But even just after 2.5.1, some problems were exposed, notably the one that requires you manually resetting your passwords because the password recovery links wouldn’t work as designed. The [...]

WordPress MU 1.3 is now out

The latest multi–user version of WordPress is now out. WordPress MU 1.3 contains several MU–specific changes, as listed by Donncha:

Better admin controls for the signup page. It can be disabled in various ways.
Upload space functions have been fixed.
The signup form is now hidden from search engines which will help avoid certain types [...]

WordPress 2.3 Plugin Compatibility

With the upcoming release of WordPress 2.3, be sure to check this list of compatible plugins before rushing out to upgrade your WP install. You just might bog down your own site if an essential plugin turns out to be incompatible.

WordPress 2.3 coming September 24

With the weekly update to the 2.3 beta, WordPress 2.3 will be available as a final release on the 24th of September. Several bugs were fixed in the period between Beta 1 and Beta 2, and more should surface and be fixed before the final release is made available for public download.
WordPress users will [...]

Structure of a WordPress Plugin

Are you writing your first WordPress plugin? One way of the best ways to learn how is to read other plugins’ code; most of which you need to do has probably been written by someone else before. You can also use this code generator that produces a template for your WordPress plugin, which you [...]

WordPress Monkey

WordPress is really the “in thing” nowadays that even old school favorite webmonkey has a site building article using the popular blogging software. Theme installation and customization is pretty much covered along with a brief intro on WordPress plugins, nifty little extensions that could make or break (literally!) your site.
This new article almost coincides with [...]

WordPress’s query_posts() function

The growth of WordPress has been overwhelming, and now almost everyone is blogging using WP as their platform of choice, or writing on WordPress.com. The upsurge in usage and interest has spawned the development of various themes and plugins, allowing for use of WP in an entirely different form.
The query_posts() function is one you’re very [...]