In recent months I’ve been tasked with taking over management of a web site programmed by somebody else. They used Drupal, with which I’m not familiar, and so a big part of the job is simply figuring out how that system works. In many cases I’ve wanted to search the entire database for a particular [...]
November 10, 2009 – 4:25 pm
I’ve had a few patches committed to WordPress core in the last few versions, and have sadly neglected to do writeups about them so that others could take advantage of the new features. I hope to remedy that in the next few posts. First off, WordPress 2.9 has a new feature that allows you to [...]
February 27, 2009 – 10:09 am
I’m working on an integrated core system for WordPress plugins — including common code and automatic “best version” detection of more than one plugin uses the same core.
September 10, 2008 – 12:54 pm
In recent changes to WordPress code, users are more than ever able to customize folder and file locations. [Edit: Refers to WordPress 2.6] The wp-config.php file can now be located one directory up from the one containing WordPress. The wp-content folder can be moved arbitrarily, as can (separately) the plugins folder. What’s a poor plugin [...]
August 27, 2008 – 10:58 am
One of the most common questions I get regarding the Virtual Multiblog system for WordPress comes from people wanting to have multiple blogs running on the same theme, but with a different header for each blog. It can be done, and it’s fairly easy to do. Once you have it set up, you could use [...]
August 22, 2008 – 11:54 pm
In the course of working on WordPress, and plugins and such for WordPress, I frequently find myself at a loss to remember the name of constants provided by the system. Hey, isn’t there a constant for such-and-such directory? I did a bit of grepping and parsing just now, and in the hopes that it might [...]
August 12, 2008 – 10:08 am
If you’ve been using WordPress for any amount of time, you’ve probably come across a plugin that asks you to add something to your template. The instructions will say something like: Insert the following into your theme files where you want the plugin’s widget to appear: <?php my_plugin_widget() ?> The slightly more intelligent instructions will [...]
Otto has released his Automatic Timezone Plugin as part of the current WordPress plugin competition. In addition to being a handy plugin, it comes with a significant bonus for plugin authors. In addition to its basic function, the code is designed to serve as a tutorial of sorts, showing authors how to use some very [...]
