WordPress Archives

Tips and Tricks on WordPress usage and development. I am very passionate about WordPress, but it doesn’t work just by itself – it needs a rich environment to live and breathe in.

If you’re after theme and plugin alterations, we have a category for that.

How to create a Cron Job in WordPress: Teach your plugin to do something automatically

Creating a recurring automatic function in WordPress used to be one of the most difficult things for me to understand. Several articles out there explain how to do it, yet I always forgot the concepts when the next cron job job came along. Right now it’s in my head, and that’s the time when I … Read more

How to share your posts on Google Plus publicly via JetPack

I’ve decided to start using Google Plus more in 2014. Thanks to JetPack 2.7 it’s a breeze to publish my posts on Google Plus without having to share them manually. What I’ve noticed though was that by default all my posts were appearing as “privately shared” only. As I’d like the widest audience possible I … Read more

How to replace fonts in TwentyThirteen

I must admit that the new default font in TwentyFourteen looks damn sexy – but I’ve only just gotten used to the TwentyThirteen theme. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re after a magazine style theme then TwentyFourteen does a great job. Since I didn’t want to change themes again over at versluis.com, I thought perhaps … Read more

Disk Space Pie Chart – v0.6 released

I’ve just released a new version of my (totally unpopular) Disk Space Pie Chart plugin for WordPress. The update addresses the background colour of the pie chart which worked well with WordPress 3.7 and below, but now that we have a snazzy new colour scheme in the admin interface, I made sure it still looks … Read more