Category: wordpress

  • How-to remove the author from your Twenty-Ten posts

    How-to remove the author from your Twenty-Ten posts

    There are more than 1300 themes available in the official Theme Directory but many WordPress blogs are using the default theme Twenty Ten. The default header of a post looks like this: Besides the date of publications the author of the article is displayed but since most blogs are operated by single persons this information…

  • WordPress: Disable plugin table paging

    Since WordPress 3.0 the plugin table is paginated by default, 20 entries at a time. In my mind this is totally useless since it means that I have to click through my plugins instead of simply scrolling through them with the mouse wheel. But there’s a more or less “hidden” option to display all plugins…

  • WordPress: Metaboxes are (re-)movable

    WordPress: Metaboxes are (re-)movable

    This might sound like an article for pure beginners but even users with years of WordPress experience are regularly scrolling their dashboard and editing pages up and down to reach the desired metaboxes. Meta what? Metaboxes. Those are the boxes used in the dashboard, the new page, or the new post pages to group the…

  • WordPress Plugin Spam, part 2

    In the post Interesting new kind of WordPress Plugin Spam I reported about a site which offers WordPress plugins to attract the careless user to a scam site. Since then Rahul (the man behind the scam) wasn’t inactive. A German user reported problems with his website which could easily be tracked down to a problem…

  • Interesting new kind of WordPress Plugin Spam

    There’s seems to be a new way of luring users of WordPress to spam sites: WordPress Plugin Spam. Like most other plugin authors I regularly check what others are saying about them; actually I have a Google Alert set on the names). The other day I received an an e-mail from this service telling me…

  • Stop supporting commercial themes and plugins for free!

    For the last days there has been much excitement about Thesis. Fo those who don’t know: Thesis is one of the more popular commercial themes for WordPress. Despite the special problems with this theme and its author it’s a more general question if customers of commercial should be supported for free by the community or…

  • So your WordPress plugin kills the Theme Editor?

    You’ve created a plugin that worked happily since version 2.5 of WordPress. Then came version 2.9 and the users of your plugin complain that the theme editor does not work anymore! What the theme editor? What have I to do with the theme editor? That were my thoughts when I received bug reports for the…

  • Meet the WordPress core developers (almost)

    How does Peter Westwood look like? How does Mark Jaquith talk? Is Ryan Boren funny? You can find some anwers in this video from the first meetup of all WordPress core developers:

  • noteaser – The unknown WordPress tag

    Most WordPress users will know the <!--more--> tag which allows you to create a teaser for your blog post. The text in front of the tag will be displayed on the main blog page and after clicking the “more” link the single post page containing the teaser and remaining part of the blog post will…

  • Accessing WordPress data from outside WordPress

    (img by shindohd) There are times when you want to access the data from your WordPress database from a webpage outside of your WordPress installation. This can be done by using the mysql_connect of PHP and selecting the data with some genuine SQL statements. This will work but it has the substantive disadvantage that the…