If you need to monitor when a user last accessed the site, maybe to gather stats of active and not active registered users, you can do it very easily in few lines of code. Of course you can attach your code to other hook, like the init hook. Attaching to Read more…
It may happen you need to disable shotcodes in a post or part of a post, because you’re writing documentation and you need to write shortcode examples and be sure they won’t be executed. Ok, I know, you can use the double square brackets but there were times went I Read more…
Forums can have a description and you can use it as a presentation offering, maybe, links to other resources, to rules and so on. To have that description displayed in the forum main page, you can code a custom theme part or use an hook. See the latter option. bbPress Read more…
Usually, if you contribute a forum sending a request, you want to know if someone replies. On bbPress you can just activate the notifications on the topic you’re creating. But it comes unchecked by default. And in a world of distracted people, assuming the most of your participant want to Read more…
You may need to disable the subscription to mail notifications connected to a forum. If a forum is really busy and someone, wrongly, subscribe it, she’ll start to receive tons of emails. There is not need to work at the code level to disable the subscription functionality, you can simply Read more…
All emails sent by a clean installation of WordPress go out with the sender name “WordPress” and the address “wordpress@yourdomain.com”. Since it’s not so nice to receive emails from a site and see in the sender name “WordPress” it is usually a good choice to change it. I don’t know Read more…
Dear friends, in the last 11 months 360 euro have been collected with donations and today I’ve sent that money to humanitarian initiative through Medecins Sans Frontieres and Save the Children. Hope the best for you and your families. Hope more and more children can enjoy their life with our Read more…
Pay attention and do not use it improperly. The is_admin() function is NOT to check is the current user is an administrator! I saw this error many times and probably I did it myself years ago. The is_admin() function provided by WordPress as core function is not to check if Read more…
Is it possible to dynamically “disable” a plugin with a condition determined by some visitor attributes? Like the presence of a cookie? Of course without changing the plugin code! Recently I faced this problem: a rather weight plugin that integrates a chat (and more) in a WP site was make Read more…
WordPress fires and activation action when a plugin is activated. Or at least it should. To be notified of its activation, a plugin can register itself to that even, using the register_activation_hook() function. There are some background concept that must be clear before start to use that action. It is Read more…