WordPress (category)

This short article is my attempt to answer the common question — what is better: install a plugin to add desired functionality or add custom code in functions.php?...

Before version 3.5, WordPress had a so-called "blogroll", "bookmarks", "links" - these were entries that had their own separate menu in the admin-panel, just like...

Exploring the use of anonymous PHP functions, also known as closures or lambda functions, in WordPress hooks and discussing their advantages and disadvantages.

WordPress does not allow uploading just anything to the media library—it protects itself. Files of non-standard (not allowed) types cannot be uploaded because WP has a...

This article explains how to create a settings page for a plugin in the WordPress Multisite network admin using the Options API, highlighting the differences from...

This article explains the usage of the ThickBox API for creating modal windows in the WordPress admin area, including examples and parameters for customization.

Support for page templates ("page" post type) has been unchanged for 12 years. And it helped developers to conveniently create templates for pages, but it has always...

This article explains how to speed up the WordPress admin panel by disabling aggressive update checks, which often cause slowdowns and performance issues. It provides a...

Using child themes in Wordpress is a valid way to modify an existing theme, but the CSS @import directive is slow, so it's worth avoiding.

It takes 200ms to load the...

Not everyone knows that in WordPress a single post or page can be divided into several parts, thus organizing the pagination for the post. To do this you need to use...

There are cases when it is necessary to add custom fields to the WordPress comment form, for example, a field for entering a phone number, address, rating, mood, and so...

In this post I'm going to share the code that adds the ability to set thumbnails for taxonomy elements, both built-in (tags, categories) and custom. The code is tested...

Collection of popular, useful, and interesting frontend hooks for functions.php, including changing the login page logo, redirecting to a post when searching, adding...

This article provides a collection of over 15 useful hooks for customizing the WordPress admin panel by modifying the functions.php file.

We often use functions to retrieve some data on a page and are unaware that this data can be taken from global variables. For example, the name of the author on the...