Category: good tip

• Plugin development tip: Analyse your database queries - English

  Published: On Friday, September 11, 2009

  If you are an advanced plugin developer, you certainly know, you should keep number of db queries made by your plugin as small as possible. Getting the total number of database queries made when generating page is obvious: get_num_queries() returns the number.

  What is not so obvious, is how to display actual performed MySQL queries (strings) – which might be useful in various scenarios of performance optimization. WordPress is prepared for that task:

  1. step: Add into your wp-config.php file this constant/value which enables remembering of all performed queries.

  define ('SAVEQUERIES', true);

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• Single wp-config for web and localhost - English

  Published: On Saturday, August 8, 2009

  Pretty usual routine is to develop site on localhost server and after some progress move it online. This transfer is complicated by three not-always-necessary steps.

  1. database settings in wp-config.php file are different
  2. settings of home- and site- URLs are different (defaultly located in wp_options table)
  3. eventually the base-path in .htaccess file is different

  First two points can be easily solved by using single wp-config. Especially is the benefit visible at the point #2, when you don't have to browse phpMyAdmin for that 2 particular rows, because these paths are written into wp-config.php file.

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• My little experience with the queue of scripts - English

  Published: On Monday, February 16, 2009

  • Sometimes you might be surprised, that WordPress/even­tually a plugin (from an unknown reason) enqueued jQuery (not speaking about administration but public template!). De-queuing is simple: Call wp_deregister_script('jquery'); before wp_head(); is run, where the scripts are usually printed out from the queue.

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• Generating prev/next link-rel navigational elements - English

  Published: On Monday, June 2, 2008

  This feature got implemented with WP version 2.8 so information in this article isn't as useful as used to be, anymore…

  I would guess this is thing that no template can provide yet: navigational link elements (always inside head part).

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• Which blogs about Wordpress are worthy of man’s attention? - English

  Published: On Saturday, May 31, 2008

  I'm afraid this topic won't answer the question from the title. Rather than that, I hope some good tips will be shared in comments. What do you read (with pleasure)?

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• Admin Drop Down Menu: more than just recommended plugin - English

  Published: On Tuesday, April 1, 2008

  Since WordPress 2.5 the header in administration takes more vertical space than ever before. The Admin DropDown Menu plugin has exist long time before 2.5, but only after recent WP release also the plugin was (totally) remade and his behaviour was radically improved.

  This image illustrates points how much the height of header changes during the time and environment :-).

  

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• Plugin development tip: Sign your code via HTML comments - English

  Published: On Monday, January 7, 2008

  I wanna suggest some rules for plugins development: making HTML code. Well, probably not rules, but something like good practices. Or so.

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• Highlight admin’s comments easily - English

  Published: On Tuesday, November 13, 2007

  I've got know about a plugin today, that should help us with with highlighting comments written by the blog's author. „Why the heck should somebody use a plugin for such a simple operation?“ – I asked myself in the first moment. Yes, the plugin provides a few possibilities that can be called as non-trivial but people should not forget that this basic issue can be solved extremely easily and – without any plug-in. In fact, I'm wondering that this capability is not included in default theme, actually I'm not wondering, because Kubrick still misses much more than that.

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• A tiny time-saver (not only) for plugin developers - English

  Published: On Sunday, September 16, 2007

  Some time ago I decided to release as open-source a small PHP script that I use for many moths. One moment sufficed to get a reply moving my script forward, so it had actually reached it’s new version a few hours after the release… aaand I’m almost sure it reached the high level of perfection so that I can publish it right here! ;)

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• Český překlad pluginu: Google Sitemap Generator - Czech

  Published: On Monday, August 6, 2007

  V touze osahat si poEdit a prožít chvíli v kůži překladatele jsem si na zkoušku přeložil plug-in Google Sitemaps Generator od Arneho Brachholda do českého jazyka.

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