Lessons I learnt from starting a WordPress Plugin Company
Lessons learnt and mistakes made starting a WordPress plugin company. Some good, some bad.
WordPress: How to change the Excerpt box label & description
How to change the default WordPress Excerpt label and description
Setting target blank to be checked by default in WP
How to set the WordPress link dialog box to have the target _blank checkbox selected by default.
WordPress Multisite Speed Improvements – Admin Bar
The WP admin bar is certainly handy and the dropdown menu listing the sites in the current network is great for quickly switching between them. Unfortunately this same dropdown menu can also cause slow site speeds,…
WordPress failing to redirect with protected Posts
I recently had a fairly obscure problem on a WordPress site and I wanted to write about it on the off chance it saves somebody else a few frustrating hours. The problem Whenever a password…
WPArtisan Filename Sanitizer
Coming soon, in the mean time see this blog tutorial
Rename and clean WordPress media filenames
For the most part WordPress does a decent job of renaming and cleaning up attachment media filenames, but sometimes it’s just not quite good enough. When it comes to UTF8 characters or accents it tends…
How to check PHP version before switching theme
We recently started created a new theme for our company website. Obviously we were excited about using all the swish (relatively) new PHP features, closures, short array syntax etc etc. As you may or may not…
WordPress 4.3 – Notes and release date
WordPress 4.3 is due on Tuesday, 18th August. Here is a brief run down of all the coming changes, enhancements and bug fixes. PHP4 style constructors deprecated – This is really the big change in preparation…
How to change the default WordPress user admin color theme
As part of an effort to clean up the WordPress admin area for our authors at work we started removing elements from the dashboard they don’t need or want in an effort to make it…