WordCamp Europe 2017 might have finished but the organisers announced this weekend that WordCamp Europe 2018 will happen in Serbia’s capital city Belgrade. So far, WordCamp Europe has vistied Leiden, Sofia, Seville, Vienna and most recently Paris. Local lead Milan Ivanovic said, “Having this global event in Belgrade will help our community grow even more and …
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WordPress 4.8 is now available. This release, named “Evans” in honour of jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans, is packed with exciting new features. To name a few, there’s now image, audio and video widgets and widgets now support rich text editing. Led by Matt Mullenweg and Jeff Paul, WordPress 4.8 was made possible by a total of …
WordPress 4.7.5 is now available. This release contains 6 important security fixes and 3 maintenance fixes. 2 cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and 1 cross site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability were among the issues addressed. If your site supports automatic updates you’ll get the latest version very soon. Alternatively you can update immediately by going …
The Transient API is a way of storing data in the WordPress database temporarily. Giving data a shelf life will ensure it doesn’t live longer than a given amount of time. You could store the result of an expensive query or some data that has been processed. Transients are saved in the wp_options database table. …
The Options API is a battle tested way of storing data in the WordPress database. Data is stored in the wp_options table and can be an integer, a string, an array or even an object. 4 CRUD functions perform the heavy lifting. add_option() get_option() update_option() delete_option() Adding an option add_option() accepts an option name and value and …
The schedule for WordCamp Europe has just been published. This year’s event will feature 2 tracks, Pullmann and Eiffel. Each talk is set to last for 30 minutes and will be followed by a 10 minute Q&A. There will be 26 talks and 16 lightening talks in total. Topics will range from design and development …
Internationalisation, or i18n, is the process of making a WordPress theme or plugin translation ready. Localisation refers to the subsequent process of translating the text strings. WordPress is used by millions of people so must provide support for a large number of languages. This tutorial aims to discuss how to internationalise your WordPress theme or …
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When editing a post, WordPress will create a revision automatically every 60 seconds. This revision is known as the autosave. You can increase or decrease the autosave interval by defining a constant in wp-config.php. define( ‘AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 45 ); // 45 seconds
The WordPress trash bin is automatically emptied every 30 days by default. To run this task more or less frequently, you can define a constant in wp-config.php. define( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 7 ); // Empty every 7 days You can also disable trash completely by setting the constant to 0. define( ‘EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS’, 0 );
The front-page.php and home.php templates create a lot of confusion in WordPress. This post aims to show which template is used.
