One of my clients, Jonathan at FinePrint, emailed me last week about the search function of his WordPress-based site being broken. He noted that searching for the keyword “title” on his support forum was returning almost everything. After a few tests on his site and some others, I realized that the search for “title” was [...]
I needed sticky custom post types for a client project but found out that WordPress doesn’t support this out of the box. Luckily it turned out to be pretty simple to add in that functionality with just a little bit of code… which I have turned into a plugin for everyone to use! YAY! Installation/instructions: [...]
By default, WordPress allows a user with the “upload_files” capability to view all items in the media library. Here’s how to remove the Media Library tab in the WordPress media uploader completely (e.g. for contributors without the “edit_others_posts” capability). Copy and paste the following code into a plugin or the theme functions.php file: function remove_medialibrary_tab($tabs) [...]
Here’s a super simple WordPress plugin that automatically adds HTML anchor tags to plain text links and email addresses embedded in the content of posts and pages (WordPress already does this by default for comments). It also gives you the option to set the nofollow attribute value on all automatically generated hyperlinks. Download this plugin [...]
This plugin is for WordPress 2.6 or 2.7. It enables WordPress to generate cookies that work with bbPress 0.9 so that single sign-on can be accomplished between the two. Follow the usual integration instructions and enable this plugin in your WordPress installation. I also advise clearing your cookies. The integration is all up and running [...]
I couldn’t find anything out there that separated comments and trackbacks from the sitewide and post comments feeds in WordPress, so I had to take a peek at the source to figure this one out. Luckily there’s an (undocumented) hook “comment_feed_where” that makes it easy! Woo! Anyway, here’s the plugin in case anyone else might [...]
