In one of many, many strokes of genius, the WordPress core developers threw in a bit of code to allow users (ok, other developers) to define a custom user table, and a custom usermeta table for a WordPress install. In it’s simplest form, you can point your Wordpress user table at that of another blog on [...]
How To: Get an Overview of all Action and Filter Hooks
Here’s a very cool little tidbit I found today (strangely enough, I found it in the bbpress codebase, while working on a bbpress plugin..) Wordpress keeps track of which function/filter combinations are registered, along with which action hooks have been called at any point. If you’re having trouble trying to figure out which action hook [...]
New Wordpress Plugin: Default Post Content
Justin over at justintadlock.com made a post a few days ago about how to preset text in the WordPress post editor. It’s a great post, with an interesting filter detailed. In the comments, somebody mentioned that they’d like to be able to preset custom fields as well – something that seems like it shouldn’t work [...]
Saving Wordpress Plugin Options – Admin Panels Done Right
This isn’t a terribly difficult task – it’s incredibly common, and it’s covered multiple places in the codex. So why am I writing about it? A few months ago, I was tasked with customizing a plugin – one that someone else wrote. I need to add some options to it, and their [...]