Yes, it is possible. You can modify that file and use it. But… It will be a lot of work to maintain those changes. You’ll have to merge them after every WordPress update and check if these changes don’t break anything in WP. That’s why such modifications aren’t very common practice and they’re not recommended.
Not a good idea to modify core WP files. Figure out the issue with the MySQL server dying: it’s going to be lack of good server configuration, a (very) bad quality host or a theme that is very database query-intensive. Fixing the underlying cause of the database server errors is the best thing to do … Read more
There is get_post_field(), which is very, very close to your proposed solution. $content = get_post_field(‘post_content’,$your_post_id); Frankly, I think WordPress already suffers from helper function overload, but there you go.
It is not possible to modify the post submit meta boxes with a filter. But you can do that with JavaScript. This script will generate 10-12 random alphanumeric string and put it in the password field (if it is empty) when you click the Password protected radio button. $(‘#visibility-radio-password’).click(function () { // If there is … Read more
There is no “safe” way to edit core files; if you do you will need to check and repeat the edition after every update. Not recommended at all. Instead of editing core files, you could use any of the actions and filters available. For example, pre_comment_on_post (example code not tested): add_action( ‘pre_comment_on_post’, function( $post_id ) … Read more
I wouldn’t recommending any core files. Instead, you can filter the title and make your changes, like so: add_filter( ‘document_title_parts’, function( $title ) ) { // $title is an array of parts if ( strlen( $title[‘title’] ) > 10 ) { $title[‘title’] = substr( $title[‘title’], 0, 5 ); // Show only first 5 characters } … Read more
Read the thread Disable/ Stop “auto-draft” posts on wp-hackers to understand why this is a very bad idea. Let me quote the explanations from @Otto: Auto-drafts exist because of the fact that multiple users can create new posts at the same time. If two people enter post-new at roughly the same moment, then have their … Read more
I still think Rarst’s answer is better and that there is no need to remove Gravatar links in the core WordPress files, but … The files you are looking for are: /wp-admin/credits.php /wp-admin/options-discussion.php /wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.js /wp-includes/pluggable.php /wp-includes/post-template.php Since you may need to do this every time WordPress updates, you could search the WordPress files for the … Read more
You can rewrite you .htaccess if you are familiar with this. Add the below line and try it: RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I would question “obviously” here. I get rather cryptic string C as result on my Windows machine. Since WP isn’t actually using native PHP functionality for any localization and handles it via core code, my best guess would be that is coming from server configuration in your case.