no more WPLANG in wp-config
as of 4.0, WP doesnt use
define('WPLANG', 'en_GB');
in wp-config but uses
$locale='fr_FR';
Time and again i fall for this same simple mistake. This may not be intuitive in the context of serialized arrays. If you fetch a serialized array with this method you want $single to be true to actually get an unserialized array back. If you pass in false, or leave it out, you will have…
I needed a placeholder for tags input but it’s boring to display the same tags every time. But unlike posts, WP doesnt have “rand” orderby paramater. So what you can do; is to get a #no of tags and shuffle them. So basically what we do is: Check if we have a recent transient If…
There are various ways to get user_ID in WP. But which one is the fastest ? I’ve compared 3 ways function get_uid_from_global() { global $current_user; return $current_user->ID; } function get_uid_by_gcuid() { return get_current_user_id(); } function get_uid_by_wpgcu_id() { return wp_get_current_user()->ID; } Without a doubt, global method was fastest. With multiple 100,000 runs, global method took 0.9~…
If you are using “page-template”s you’ll have problems with pagination since pages are not meant to display posts and some people frown upon using page-templates for custom archive display, but it’s sometimes the simplest way. Anyway the solution is 1.) to nullify the global $wpquery 2.) adding ‘paged’ => $paged arg. before displaying your posts…
The story: I was getting session file write errors (write failed: No space left on device (28) ) in wp admin, i checked /tmp folder but it was not full, only 60% percent was used. So not being able to pinpoint what the problem was, i thought a reboot would be a good idea. But…
If you have a comment in your <head> that says <!– This site is optimized with the Yoast WordPress –> it’s not a big deal for the average user, but if you do not want to openly reveal that you are using WordPress, this is utterly annoying for you. I usually use my own functions…