Note that plugins are all “controllers” by WP standards. It depends on what the plugin is supposed to do, but in all cases I would try to separate the screen output from the PHP code as much as possible. Here’s one way to do that easily – first, define a function that loads the template: … Read more
I think we also need a few more features: Minifying JS, CSS and the HTML that is being sent down the wire. Caching the op-code of the PHP that will be generated (apart from Memcached). Upload the JS, CSS and Images that are used in the theme and/or plugin to a CDN and sync automatically. … Read more
The others are not needed as you point out. Btw, what you could do is, conditionally set the user/pass based on the requested page. As in unprivileged with select/insert/update/delete for normal usage, and privileged with definition/index related stuff in addition when visiting the upgrade page.
These are 3 snippet for better performance, regarding Yahoo! rules: Disable Etags: Header unset ETag FileETag None Add expire headers: <FilesMatch “\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$”> Header set Expires “Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:00:00 GMT” </FilesMatch> Or ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html “access plus 1 day” ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 10 years” ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 10 years” ExpiresByType image/png … Read more
The new user email is sent using the wp_new_user_notification() function. This function is pluggable, which means that you can overwrite it: // Redefine user notification function if ( !function_exists(‘wp_new_user_notification’) ) { function wp_new_user_notification( $user_id, $plaintext_pass=”” ) { $user = new WP_User($user_id); $user_login = stripslashes($user->user_login); $user_email = stripslashes($user->user_email); $message = sprintf(__(‘New user registration on your blog … Read more
There is this rather in-depth explanation found at, Part 1 http://theme.fm/2011/09/wordpress-internals-how-wordpress-boots-up-2315/ Part 2 http://theme.fm/2011/09/wordpress-internals-how-wordpress-boots-up-part-2-2437/ Which also includes some diagrams/flowcharts. and… This is also just the start of understanding the WordPress initialization process to which also should include information about the template hierarchy, as well as inspecting which hooks are fired on which pages and when. … Read more
is_front_page() returns true if the user is on the page or page of posts that is set to the front page on Settings->Reading->Your homepage displays So if you set about us as the front page then this conditional will only be true if showing the about us page. is_home() return true when on the posts … Read more
You won’t find a WordPress plugin to do that – you need to use http://www.copyscape.com or something similar; Good luck getting people to remove your content though, most of them will be automatically generated heaps of junk.
Basically, this is a programming pattern for namespacing code within a WordPress plugin. Typically, you can only have one function called init() in a program, but more than one author will try to use that name. Placing function names in a class is a way around this limitation. For example: class Towfiq_Person { static function … Read more
If you are getting to the point where the code in your theme’s functions.php is starting to overwhelm you I would definitely say you are ready to consider splitting it up into multiple files. I tend to do that almost by second nature at this point. Use Include Files in your Theme’s functions.php File I … Read more