These are all plugins that I’ve used, and while I’m sure there’s a lot of good plugins I’ve missed, but these are ones I’ve had experience with and would recommend as enhancing your WordPress blog. Akismet – this is included with WordPress and is (in my opinion) one of the essential plugins you will need … Read more
ShareDaddy uses two filter hooks either the_content or the_excerpt this means that your custom post type theme template file has to use one of these two functions the_content(); or the_excerpt();. Update Ok I guess i didn’t get the question. So to add the metabox to your custom post type add this: // Hook things in, … Read more
you can do that using JQuery autocomplete plugin and once you have included all of the needed JS files just add this code after your new post form $terms = get_terms(“post_tag”); $tags=””; $count = count($terms); if ( $count > 0 ){ foreach ( $terms as $term ) { $tags .= ‘”‘.$term->name.'”, ‘; } $tags = … Read more
This is not something that is currently supported in WordPress. There’s some discussion about it here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6820 One plugin which does enable this functionality is: http://skyphe.org/code/wordpress/file-gallery/ This plugin does a few extra things, but one option it provides is that after clicking “upload/insert” and going to the media library tab, you can tick check boxes … Read more
You can use the switch_to_blog() function. Whatever you call within the function would be just like you are pulling in any content, but from that particular blog ID.
There is a very nice plugin called P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler). Give it a try! This plugin creates a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time. Often times, WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly configured plugins or because there are so many of them. By … Read more
First, read this Codex page about translating WordPress. You have to create a language file to put into your language directory, do this by following the next steps: I assume you want to use poedit since you talk about a .po file download poedit File > new catalog In the first tab, fill in the … Read more
No, there is no safe way to know the sites using your plugin. Let’s take a look at the options: Add a marker to the rendered HTML, a comment or a meta tag. This would still require a search engine to index these markers and tell you when they are found. But what’s more important: … Read more
The built-in dashboard widgets are not marked somehow, you have to use a fixed list: ‘dashboard_right_now’, ‘dashboard_plugins’, ‘dashboard_quick_press’, ‘dashboard_recent_drafts’, ‘dashboard_recent_comments’, ‘dashboard_incoming_links’, ‘dashboard_primary’, ‘dashboard_secondary’ So your code should test if the current widget is in that list and remove the widget, if it isn’t: add_action( ‘wp_dashboard_setup’, ‘t5_remove_custom_dashboard_widgets’, 11 ); function t5_remove_custom_dashboard_widgets() { global $wp_meta_boxes; $builtin = … Read more
When including files in functions.php, you need to reference the correct filepath, using get_template_directory(): include( get_template_directory() . ‘/newfile.php’ );