Adding Categories And Post Tags Boxes For Custom Post Type

rilwis — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:47:28 +0000

Categories and Post Tags boxes are built-in meta boxes that have been already registered in WordPress. We can use them not only for default posts or pages but also for custom post types as well in WordPress. And this can be done easily with argument taxonomies of register_post_type() function when registering new custom post type.

5 Ways To Include Template Files In WordPress

rilwis — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:08:39 +0000

Separating a repeatitive code into a file is a good way to organize and manage code. It keeps our code cleaner, easier to read. All these files can be put in a current theme folder or subfolder to make a good structure. This is a very popular principle in software development: Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) or Duplication is Evil (DIE).read more

Fix URL Error In W3 Total Cache

rilwis — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:49:15 +0000

W3 Total Cache is a wonderful cache plugin for WordPress that decrease server load by serving cached (static HTML) files. I'm using it in all my blogs. It works properly except one thing that I discovered today. The problem is when I type my domain without "www", W3 Total Cache redirects to a weird URL like /wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/_default_.html.gzip instead of the root URL with "www".read more

WordPress 3.0 Is Available - Upgrade Now

rilwis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:39:29 +0000

It's about half a month since the first RC of WordPress was released, today the third major version is available for download. This release includes (and improves) some interesting features that already been developed since RC version

Prevent SQL Injection Attacks In WordPress

rilwis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:49:14 +0000

SQL injection is a very popular technique to hack into database of a website by using incorrect user input with unescaped characters. It occurs when developer designs a bad database layer for an application. In WordPress, the database layer is $wpdb class, which is well-designed for this purpose.read more

WordPress: Automatically Remove Short Words In URL For Better SEO

rilwis — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:12:11 +0000

According to Matt Cutts's answer in his interview at Pubcon, for good SEO, the URL should contains 3-5 words. If there are more than 5 words, Google's algorithms typically will just weight those words less and just not give you as much credit. So, we should keep our URL as short as possible, and remove all unwanted words.

Add Custom Column To WordPress Post Manage Page

rilwis — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:23:06 +0000

The post manage page in WordPress shows you a list of posts with their details: title, author, categories, etc. These details give blog manager a quick summary view of the posts. Sometimes, you might want to add new custom column to this page, such as 'Views', 'Ratings' to see more statistics about posts, especially when you have installed the corresponding plugins.read more

Make URL Clickable In WordPress

rilwis — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:55:33 +0000

Sometimes, you blog post contains many links (for example a download page), then it wastes a lot of time if you make each link clickable manually. Fortunately, WordPress has a built-in function that can help us to convert every URL in plain text into a clickable link.

WordPress 3.0 RC1 Has Been Released

rilwis — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:07:42 +0000

After a long time awaiting, today the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 has been released. This version comes with almost everything done: all features finished, all bugs squashed, and all potential issues addressed.

Pagination Within A Page In WordPress

rilwis — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:03:36 +0000

WordPress 3.0 is coming with 2 interesting features: custom post types and (improved) custom taxonomies. These 2 features help us to create different content (not only traditional blog posts) and classify them in many ways. To list all this content in a page like an archive page, we often use the query_posts() function in a custom page template.read more