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 went into trouble with shortcodes. […]
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 has the action bbp_template_before_single_forum fired […]
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 know if they set a […]
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 hide, with a CSS rule, […]
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 why WordPress doesn’t make this […]
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 little help and have future […]
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is_admin() WordPress Function: Misusage
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 the current user is an […]
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Dynamically Disable a Plugin
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 the site itself too slow. […]
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The WordPress Plugin Activation Hook
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 not always as natural as […]
You may need to add some tLogRow components in your Talend job to monitor during test the ETL progress, but then you need to turn them off when you run the job in production. Probably you have already at least two contexts: the one you use in the test environment and the one to be […]