Graphic Designer, Front-End Web Developer
If your WordPress site gets stuck in maintenance mode while updating your version of WordPress, a theme or plugin, here is a simple solution for getting your site back online.
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WordPress shortcodes—love em’ or hate ’em? Personally, I hate ’em and here’s why: Once you stop using a shortcode (for example when you switch to another theme) you’ll find shortcodes in full text on your posts.
Here’s a SQL query to remove them. Just update the code with the shortcode you want to remove. I’ve used [blue-button] in this example.
UPDATE wp_post SET post_content = replace(post_content, '[blue-button]', '' ) ;
An alternative to using shortcodes, consider using a plugin such as AddQuickTag.
This article was inspired by Steven Slack’s The shortfalls of [shortcodes]
If you chose to tag the content on your site, a “tag-cloud” may be an ideal way to display tag navigation for users.
To display a tag cloud start with the following parameters:
1, //size of least used tag 'largest' => 2, //size of most used tag 'unit' = => 'em', //unit for sizing 'number' => 45, //displays at most 45 tags 'format' => 'flat', //displays the tags in flat 'orderby' => 'name', //order the tags by name 'order' => 'ASC' //sort the tags in ASCENDING order )); ?>
Dig deeper into ‘tag clouds’ at WordPress
TwentyEleven displays the title in lots of different places. However, there may be certain cases where you do not want your post title to include a hyperlink. To remove the permalink from post titles, you will need to search the files beginning with code like this:
and change that to this:
Check all of the php files with names starting ‘content’. For example: content-aside.php, content-single.php, etc.
Going way back: The First Release Of WordPress Now Available
http://wordpress.org/news/2003/05/wordpress-now-available/
This snippet of code prevents WordPress from checking for plugin updates. For security reasons, it is important to keep third-party WordPress plugins up-to-date. However, there are times when you might create a site for a client and don’t want them to update their plugins. Perhaps you have changed a plugins code or concerned a plugin update could cause problems or break the site.
Simply paste the following code into your sites functions.php file. The functions.php file is located in your sites theme folder.
remove_action( 'load-update-core.php', 'wp_update_plugins' ); add_filter( 'pre_site_transient_update_plugins', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) ); ?>
