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';
I was working on an autocomplete solution and I was thinking of ways to speed up the search. I will be providing a few examples with results below. Q1 is the default wordpress search with no parameters. Q2 removes the caches since they wont be really necessary. And Q3 is tailored for precision; ie: my…
So I wasn’t able to add new items to wordpress menu and found out that the reason is the POST limit but adding max_input_vars = 2000 did not solve the problem (default is 1000). If you have suhosin and cant add new menu items or save your menu, you have to add the below to your…
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~…
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…
My navigation menu started disappearing on category pages. First I suspected there was something with the header or menu location, I have double, triple checked everything and I was pulling my hair out trying to find a solution. Turns out, my attempt to order posts by a custom field interfered with the menu. if( ! $query->is_main_query())…