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Edward July 29, 2015May 25, 2016 2 Comments
WordPress Admin Login Screen

WordPress: How to change the text labels on login and lost password pages

Editing the text labels on the WordPress login form and the lost password form is pretty easy. There’s a handy action called gettext that all WordPress translated text for the entire site goes through (whether it’s…

Edward July 28, 2015May 25, 2016 2 Comments
Moving the WordPress excerpt meta box

WordPress: How to move the excerpt meta box above the editor

Adding and removing new meta boxes is pretty easy in WordPress thanks to the numerous native functions. The same functions can even be used to change the position of native meta boxes, moving them up, down and into…

Edward November 15, 2014

Useful WordPress DataBase statements – Part 1 – Tags

If you happened to glance at my previous post about the media_sideload_image function you’ll know that recently I had to manually import a load of content into a WordPress install. A lot of this was done with…

Edward January 22, 2014

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…

Edward January 13, 2014

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…

Edward November 26, 2013

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…

Edward October 4, 2013

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…

Edward September 6, 2013February 26, 2017 2 Comments

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…

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