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Speed Up WordPress: A Developer’s POV
As an end-user, you might find WordPress ridiculously slow sometimes, not because WordPress itself is slow, but rather the way you're using WordPress is not optimized. That's why speeding up WordPress is a topic that can never get old. Mashable talked about it more than a year ago, Noupe has recently published an article about it, and even a design magazine blog has done the same thing.
All articles found on the Internet... more
URL to Post ID for Custom Post Types
In WordPress, url_to_postid is a magic function that helps you convert certain URLs to IDs. However, it is limited to built-in post types. This tip will show you how to quickly make url_to_postid work with WordPress custom post types.... more
Great WordPress Plugins (Small Giants) – Part 2
A WordPress plugin can choose to be great instead of big, and it seems obvious to me that people always want to use an efficient plugin that is somewhat feature-limited, rather than a plugin that does a lot of things, but also uses a lot of resources along the way.
In the previous article in this Small Giants series, I have introduced five plugins that are very useful, but lack awareness. This time,... more
Ten Useful WordPress Constants You Might Love
A WordPress constant is simply a variable that can not be changed once it is defined. As static as a constant is, it still plays an important role in controlling how your WordPress works.
If you are asked to name some WordPress constants, it would not be a surprise if you mention ones like WP_DEBUG, ABSPATH, or WP_LANG, because they are somewhat widely used. In this article, I will list and explain other... more
Remove Trailing Slash for Permalinks with Extensions
If you are using a permalink structure that has a trailing slash at the end, read this tip to know how to remove such slash for virtual pages, whose URLs end in their extensions!... more
WordPress BugNet – Part Two
This is the second post in the WordPress Bugnet series, in which I will list another five WordPress bugs that have not been fixed in recent versions of WordPress, along with their statuses and workarounds if available. Make sure you check out the first post, too!
By reading this series, you might be able to figure out if something's wrong with your blogs, and hopefully, fix it without the need of a bugifx... more
Create Fake Pages in WordPress
People's need is changing everyday, and so is WordPress. From a simple blogging software, WordPress has evolved into a somewhat feature-rich Content Management System. It is, therefore, not a surprise if we, users and developers, always try to do crazy things with WordPress these days, and creating virtual (fake) WordPress pages is simply one of those unusual objectives.
So, what do we need fake pages for anyway? What I find particularly useful about... more
No Smilies Conversion in Code Tags
Smilies are used everywhere: in posts, comments, or even handwritten notes, and WordPress automatically converts a text smiley to a nice icon for you. But inside code tags, such conversion serves no purpose. It is therefore recommended that you disable it.... more
Show latest Posts from each Post Type
On WordPress.org's Support Forum, there are many questions asked regarding the same topic: How should we modify WordPress's main query to have a fancier output, namely latest posts from each category or latest posts from each post type?
WordPress unfortunately does not provide any built-in function to handle these kinds of tasks, and it can be quite inefficient if we query for posts multiple times on one page, especially if you have a... more
Dummy Data for WordPress
If you are a developer (regardless of what you develop), you know that testing your product out is one of the most important steps in the development process. Apart from running functionality tests you might also need to run scalability as well as compatibility tests and that's where dummy data come in.
For WordPress you will most of the time need dummy data for posts, users or categories, things that take times to... more
Append a Trailing Slash to Paths and URLs
This useful function will help you easily and properly work with paths and URLs.... more
Global Options in a Multi-site WordPress
Make use of get_site_option() and update_site_option() in a Multi-site environment.... more
