Deleting & limiting WordPress post revisions
Post revisions in WordPress are great. They give you a huge amount of control over your posts & pages and allow you or your authors to edit at will without having to worry about taking…
Changing the WordPress default empty trash time
Trash in WordPress is great. If you accidentally delete a post or page instead of being permanently deleted it is simply moved to the trash folder where it can be recovered if necessary. By default…
PHP: Validate & Check Dates
More times than I can count I’ve had to validate dates in PHP, not only check if it is in the required format but also to make sure the date actually exists. Until recently there…
The best set of test data for WordPress
Whenever a new theme gets built for WordPress one of the most important but often over looked aspects is testing. Apart from the standard stuff like embedding images, page headings, tags etc there is also…
WordPress: Auto adds slashes to $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST, $_COOKIE
When I first hard coded a form into a WordPress page and print_r() the results, all the quotes were escaped. Now, being a reasonably savvy developer at times, my first thought was obviously, “Oh the…
jQuery UI tabs reset CSS
The other day I had need for a lightweight JavaScript tabs implementation. The site was already setup with jQuery so the natural choice was, of course, to load jQuery UI and use tabs. After a…
WordPress: SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS, why it’s slow and what to do about it
UPDATE: 25 Feb 2017 This has actually become the most popular post on my site over the last few years and recently someone was kind enough to point out that the original code, well mostly working, ignores…