This is the first article in a series that will deal with the concept of helping to manage your WordPress installation with Git. In this article, we’ll talk about using Git to manage all of your public plugins that reside in the WordPress Plugin Repository. If you do not yet have any plugins in the Plugin Repository, […]
Easter Egg: Dropping Extra Tables When Multisite Blog Is Deleted
July 10, 2015 by 1 Comment
I’m not sure why this isn’t more publicly promoted, but, while looking through some of the code for WordPress multisite this morning, I discovered a really helpful Easter egg. If you develop any plugins that add extra tables to a site, you really need to know about this. There is a filter that gets applied […]
Writing a WordPress Plugin – HEWeb Southeast
June 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of reworking and reprising one of my old workshops. At HighEdWeb Southeast, at Frances Marion University, I presented a half-day workshop explaining the basics of developing a WordPress plugin. The plugin implements a very basic functionality allowing you to insert a greeting along with the user’s name. The first […]
Quick Tip: Finding Shortcode Usage In Your Site
May 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’ve all had those days when we’ve decided that we needed to remove an old plugin, but we need to figure out where that plugin might be in use before we can figure out how to solve the issues that were supposed to be solved by that old plugin. In a lot of cases, this […]
New Multisite Plugin Beta: Plugin Activation Status
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Tonight, I sat down and modified an old script I’d written, turning it into a real WordPress plugin. The plugin is tentatively known as “Plugin Activation Status”, and it’s developed specifically for multisite and multi-network installations of WordPress. What It Does This plugin first retrieves a full list of all of the plugins that are […]