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.

Show Me The Cookies: How to list all cookies on your WordPress site

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I’ve been working on a new plugin for WordPress called Cookies. It shows you a list of all cookies on your current site. Once activated, you can find this list under Appearance – Cookies.

In addition, you can also display this list to your visitors by adding the shortcode [cookies] to any post or page. Many of those cookies are used by WordPress to track things such as “are you logged in”, so I’ve added an option to filter WordPress related cookies out. This list is available with the [cookies-nowp] shortcode.

I’m still putting the finishing touches on the plugin, but I’m planning to submit it to the WordPress repository. For now, feel free to download it from my GitHub repository.

Let me tell you a bit about how this plugin came to be.

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How to disable the Login with WordPress.com prompt

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One of my self hosted WordPress sites kept offering me to login with my WordPress.com credentials. I find that mindnumbingly annoying, since I don’t use WordPress.com (nor can I remember my credentials). Thankfully there’s an easy way to switch this prompt off. This integration comes courtesy of Jetpack. There’s an option under Jetpack – Settings … Read more

How to hide WordPress Update Notifications with ZEN DASH

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In this episode I’ll show you how to hide and remove those (almost daily occurring) WordPress Update Notifications. I’ve built this functionality into a plugin I’ve written over 5 years ago called ZEN DASH. The plugin’s main purpose is to hide all kinds of clutter from the WordPress admin interface, such as unused tabs, dashboard … Read more

Creating a Podcast Feed with WordPress and PowerPress – Part 3

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In this final episode of this mini series I’ll show you how to configure the first episode of your Podcast Feed by adding the audio file to the post. I’m also talking about the implications of setting the date and time on the post so that all your post-dated episodes appear in the correct order. … Read more

How to turn URLs into clickable links in the_content()

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The P2 theme has a nice feature built-in: the ability to turn URLs into clickable links on the fly. It does this by using a WordPress built-in function called make_clickable(). Here’s how we can use this function to make this feature available to any theme. The above code, once inserted into your child theme’s functions.php … Read more