Ever wanted posts to be removed from a menu when deleted? Maybe. Ever wanted them removed when set to draft? Less likely but I’ll tell you how to do both anyway! The first is really easy and I pulled the solution from an open ticket on WordPress Trac. add_action( ‘wp_trash_post’, ‘_wp_delete_post_menu_item’ ); and that’s it. […]

I’ve been doing a ton of work with RSS feeds lately, using them to sync data across nearly 2000 sites. I was running into an issue with WP caching of feeds. There’s a filter to change how long WP holds the RSS feed information in cache and is easy to use (link): function lower_feed_cache_time() { […]

The first one to show me most of this was my friend Topher and I added an extra command. It’s the fastest way to install a fresh version of WordPress on an empty server just waiting for it. You’ll need SSH access enables for the server, and you’ll need to connect to the server using a […]

First, let’s define when you’d use this. Here’s where I as at. I was pulling in a most recent post into a page that was not the blog. Not just onto a page, but into a custom post type (for displaying small content on the home page) that only had a couple of fields available […]

This is an add-on to my last post about customizing the login page. My client wanted to (very slightly) change the text a user sees on the Forgot Password page. It took me way too long to come across the login_message filter. here’s my function: function forgotpass_message() { $action = $_REQUEST[‘action’]; if( $action == ‘lostpassword’ […]

So the plugin I wrote about last post didn’t handle everything like I thought it did. If a user entered their password incorrectly, they were brought straight to the default wp-login.php page with the WP logo staring them right in the face. Exactly what my client did not want. It turns out this was a […]