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…