Always when trying to integrate a Mailchimp Newsletter Subscription into WordPress manually, there are a lot of problems occuring. In this very short tutorial I will explain how to create a working, customizable form. 1. The Mailchimp backend. Go to: Lists -> Forms [from the desired list] -> For your Website -> Signup Form embed […]

Recently I had to fix a bunch of really annoying problems with this combination. Duplicated contents, automatically inserted line breaks and problems with the custom styles for TinyMCE really caused me to hate these Plugins. The reason for most of the problems is qTranslate though. If you experience similar problems, the following “library” will be […]

You do not want to use Attachment-Pages in your WordPress page? Or maybe you installed a gallery Plugin and want to transform all your Attachment URLs into File-URLs now? The following script will do this for you. Just make sure, that all relevant content blocks of your database run through this script. function cis_file_links($content) { […]

This little scripts help ordering WordPress categories by meta values – a thing which is not integrated into WordPress yet and which costs some time to integrate. 1. Create a meta value (or meta values) for categories to order by To order categories by a meta value the first thing which we have to do […]

It is a common problem to detect parents or childs of pages and categories in WordPress correctly. The way WordPress stores relationships in hierarchies is not that trivial sometimes, so the results when querying are a bit confusing sometimes. It took some time to determine and optimize functions which do this job good and without faults, and I want to present these. As in this function I prefer working with page IDs, as this is the savest way to identify certain pages. With little changes it should also be possible to use these using e.g. slugs. Both of these functions can be used inside and outside of “the Loop” or loops.

Recently we had an issue with the line-breaks in WordPress comments – the comments are saved to the database as they are submitted from the textarea in your theme, and depending on the theme so they are displayed. If your comments are displayed as HTML and there is no mechanism to add line breaks anywhere, […]

You may have noticed that understanding and extending roles and capabilities in WordPress can be a bit confusing as a start. On the one hand there are the default roles: (Super Admin), Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber, and they all have more or less rights (=capabilities) to do actions on a WordPress website, with descending […]

Recently, when working on a WordPress website for a huge amount of users, a customer was unsatisfyied with the WordPress backend search for users. The default backend search only is searching for your search string in usernames, but not for first name, last name or email of users.   As most WordPress projects are barely […]

While using WordPress on IIS 7 we were confronted with the problem that post loops without results or 404 pages on IIS where redirecting to the ugly default 404 pages of IIS instead of leading us to the WordPress ones. The most obvious possibility to solve this problem is to change the IIS server configuration. […]

Recently I was confronted with the problem to have multiple user types on a WordPress Blog who needed to be logged in using an external service/authentication mechanism partly. But they all had to use the same login form for the system. A common problem? The WordPress Function Reference and  Codex do not document this topic […]