I use a plug-in called Post Word Count to sum the total number of published words across my entire site … then again, I’m the only author, so this is a pretty simple example. But you could start with this plug-in and add a filter that changes the query based on the author’s ID. Basically: … Read more
It’s not a book but I wrote a “25 Steps to Understand WordPress and it’s Terms” about a month ago in response to a question on the LinkedIn WordPress group and maybe copying it here will help? (Maybe I could every take these and turn them into a book for managers complete with screenshots; what … Read more
How to trigger an oembed cache regeneration The default cache time is 24 hours and we can adjust it with the oembed_ttl filter. But as you’ve noticed, expired cache is not enough to trigger a cache regeneration. The reason is this line in the WP_Embed class: if ( $this->usecache || $cached_recently ) { so to … Read more
Caution: very mac/linux/unix centric thoughts ahead. Includes a lot of command line fu. Put All the Code Under Version Control I like git. Mark Jaquith has some good suggestions on keeping an entire site under version control using git and submodules for the WordPress core. You could also put plugins in as git submodules. The … Read more
Your sites look nothing alike. Open those three links – and there is not a single element that binds all three sites together. Network of sites can benefit from consistent looks. You could use global “about” page that covers all of your activity and not just bits in context of specific site. Consider building landing … Read more
You can use Advanced Custom Fields plugin. It’s pretty easy to use and very powerful, so it’s the best choice right now, I guess.
The content is a property of the post object, not of the query object. Use $post or get_post() instead: if( ” !== get_post()->post_content ) { // do something }
The best way is without plugin – i set WP3.0 with multisite; the first blog is a dummy to rewrite the uesers to right blog with his language, a small script in the theme to rewirte ro the right language; i see in the browser-language of the users and rewrite; the second is the default … Read more