Since WordPress 3.5 this option (XML-RPC) is enabled by default, and the ability to turn it off from WordPress dashboard is gone. Add this code snippet for use in functions.php: // Disable use XML-RPC add_filter( ‘xmlrpc_enabled’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable X-Pingback to header add_filter( ‘wp_headers’, ‘disable_x_pingback’ ); function disable_x_pingback( $headers ) { unset( $headers[‘X-Pingback’] ); … Read more
Store errors in your class or as a global, possibly in a transient or meta, and display them in admin notices on POST requests. WP does not feature any flash message handler.
When developing a plugin should the functions be grouped together into a Class to avoid namespace conflicts? Yes, but that’s only one of the minor arguments. In-fact that’s not the “true” nature of a class in OOAD. Does using classes create performance overheads for PHP? No, not notably. Bad design and/or bad written code or … Read more
The OpenID plugin you linked is the best one, but it has a minor bug preventing it from working with WordPress 3.0, at least when combined with PHP 5.3. The fix can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/diso/issues/detail?id=161
Object cache everywhere WordPress tries to reduce the number of database queries as much as possible. For example, anytime you get a meta field or a taxonomy field, before querying the database, WordPress looks if that that was already queried and stored in cache, and returns it from there instead of querying the database. The … Read more
I wound up working on the exact same thing and this post was very helpful. I used Custom Fields and here is the code that I used to create a list of all events greater than the current date. Note the extra taxonomy based filters. <?php // Let’s get the data we need to loop … Read more
There may be a better way that I am missing but I am going to give you 2 options: 1.Use XML Export to export your new posts and comments. Then use the WordPress Importer to import the new posts and comments back into the dev database It’s best to import into dev then move the … Read more
get_option(‘date_format’); get_option(‘time_format’);
I for myself use a combination of: one file dedicated to the one-time script using a transient to stop the script from accidentally running more than once using capability-management or user-control to ensure the script is just run by me. Structure I use a file (onetime.php) in my include-folder inc, which is included in the … Read more
Based on my own experience, I’ve used a combination of method 1 & 2 – the architecture and footer scripts of 1, and the ‘look-ahead’ technique of 2. For the look-ahead though, I use regex in place of stripos; personal preference, faster, and can check for ‘malformed’ shortcode; preg_match( ‘#\[ *shortcode([^\]])*\]#i’, $content ); If you’re … Read more