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January 2016
Today, I am happy to announce the 0.7 release of my WordPress plugin “BuddyPress Desktop Notification“. If you do not know my plugin yet, I covered it in a small blog post here. Today I’ve (finally) read a small complain in the support forum of my plugin: Notification received excellent but repeating again and again […]
August 2015
As I announced yesterday, I just published a new WordPress plugin in the repository. Its name says everything: “Support Ticket“. So, as probably every plugin developer passionate about his/her plugin and thinking its the coolest/biggest/most comprehensive or whatever plugin out there, I now regularly check the download stats and hope they may rise like never […]
August 2015
Some weeks ago, I had a small job which led me out of the WordPress cosmos. Basically I had to adjust a running webpage on which a ticket support system was included. I immediately missed a lot of the nice filters and features WordPress comes along and which are usually used by plugin and theme […]
May 2015
Due to a small Twitter discussion, which started after a tweet of Pippin I realized again, the WordPress HTTP API has “safe” functions. Some days or weeks ago I’ve heard of them already, but I didn’t check on them. The topic is the following: The functions wp_remote_post(), wp_remote_get() and wp_remote_head() do have siblings, which are […]
May 2015
Today, I want to discuss a function in WordPress which some might believe is outdated: wp_is_mobile() (to be found in wp-includes/vars.php). This function detects whether a mobile device is used or not by using the user agent of the browser. What? In times of responsive web design? Five years after Ethan Marcottes legendary article about […]
May 2015
If you ask a developer why WordPress has so much more success compared to other CMS like Drupal or Joomla, one concept will pop up for sure: Backwards Compatibility. Since the beginning of WordPress, its developers focused on one issue: Not to break functionality from one version to another. One example are deprecated functions: Functions […]
May 2015
My latest plugin has just been released on wordpress.org: “BuddyPress Desktop Notification“. If you are running a BuddyPress community, you can use this plugin in order to display new messages, activities and friendship requests for your users. How this works? After a user logged in, the browser will ask for the permission to display desktop […]
May 2015
If you are logged in, WordPress usually displays the admin bar on the top of your page. But there are situations, where you don’t want to display the bar. Sometimes, it is ruining your site layout or you want to hide the bar for certain groups of users. There are different ways to hide the […]
May 2015
Together with the WordPress Customizer a nice feature was introduced into WordPress: The header image. If a theme supports header images with add_theme_support() you can choose an image, which will be displayed in the header. I’ve read now an interesting question in a forum: Can someone please tell me if it is possible to alter […]
May 2015
A few days ago I already published an article on how to add additional links on the plugins overview page. Yesterday I run again into the plugin “Cleaner Plugin Installer” and saw, David adds for his plugin also links under the plugin description: Usually you just find the version number, a link to the authors […]