Fun with SEO Spammers
I am involved in a joint venture with one of my close friends, Glenn Ansley. It’s the World’s Best Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress (in my humble opinion). Well, if…
Globally Disable Comments and Pings in WordPress Multi-Site
Over the past couple years I’ve worked on a number of WordPress Multi-Sites that wanted to have their comments and pings disabled. In other words, they weren’t accepting comments and…
How to search for user last name in the WordPress Users dashboard
Have a client with almost 2500 users in their WordPress site and they wanted to be able to search their users by last name. By default this is not enabled…
Rate Limiting with WordPress’ Transient API
I run a web app called leenk.me, it’s a Social Media Optimization application for WordPress. Basically it publishes your WordPress content to Twitter / Facebook / Google Buzz whenever you…
WordPress Weekly Patch – Escaped Apostrophe – Trac #14996
Glenn Ansley started this “WordPress Weekly Patch” idea. Where you submit one patch a week to WordPress core. I’ve been doing it, but have definitely missed the “weekly” part of…
Using WordPress’ Built-in Media Upload
I was working with a client a few weeks ago. They wanted to create a customer portal that allowed their customers to upload files to their website. Once their clients…
Allowing Hyperlinks in Your WordPress Excerpts
By default, WordPress strips out all the HTML tags from your post excerpts. I needed to allow hyperlinks, but there is a problem when WordPress tries to truncate the post’s…
Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication in WordPress Multi-Site
As many of you know, I led the team that launched the College of Education at UGA’s new website (http://www.coe.uga.edu/) which is driven by WordPress Multi-Site. The first phase is…
Certified as one of the Three Most Important People in WordPress
I have been certified as one of the three most important people in WordPress! From Matt Mullenweg’s hands, to your eyes; read’em and weep!
How to fix WordPress MultiSite switch_to_blog() permalinks
If you are using switch_to_blog() in your WordPress MultiSite installation and notice that your permalinks contain “/blog/” in them (or some other oddity). The give John James Jacoby’s plugin Switch…