All WordPress Options in one page

This might be an old trick, but it is still a definite speed improvement using this page when you are fine-tuning any WordPress blog. You can gain access to all the settings & options in WordPress by going to a single url: http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/options.php Some forms of stored data is impossible to edit this way, such as serialized data, but you can tweak a lot of settings in one...

Get Post Title Outside “The Loop”

Getting individual post data outside the loop can be difficult, but you can quickly get the information you want if you have the id of the post you are trying to get information from: Use the following code to get the information: global $wpdb; $postid='1'; // replace this with the postid you are trying to access. $postdata= $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE...

Download 292 Pages Of WordPress Functions

If you wish to have a local copy of a very complete list of WordPress Functions, you should go visit the homepage of Tom and Jonathan of Modscape LLC. They have compiled a wopping 292 page PDF file containing all of the content of the pages linked to from the Wordpress Codex Function Reference as of 03/03/09 The PDF file also includes links to all the Template Tags pages, so the file is fairly...

Forget cURL, use wp_remote_fopen!

It’s time for another WordPress Development Tip, today is a not so well known function, wp_remote_fopen. When I search the internet for WordPress tips and tricks, I usually encounter small tutorials and tips that use either file_get_contents or cURL. The first, file_get_contents is a PHP function, which is usually turned off by most web hosting companies. cURL is an extension built into...

Development Tip: get_plugin_data function

A really great and clever little function in WordPress I only just recently discovered, is the get_plugin_data function. This function will return the data you enter into the header of your WordPress plugin, so you can use a clever template structure for when you create new plugins. The plugin will return an array of the following information: ‘Name’ – Name of the plugin, must...