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 [...]

These are my todays top 10 Javascript functions which I gathered in more than 6 months of casually Javascript Development. Almost each of them helped out of more than one problem, so they deserve to be perpetuated here and help again. Most of these are not written by me, but by some other great programmer on the web, and I really would like to mention all of them here if I would know where I have got all of these great scripts. Have fun an use wisely. [...]

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 [...]

A lot of sites want WordPress excerpts to have an accurate length to fit into a specified number of text lines. This can be required for design reasons, for example. The default WordPress excerpt length is managed by a given amount of words (default 70), which can be very imprecicsly when it comes to the [...]

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Today we have been searching for an easy and fast way to store and reuse $_POST variables over 2 pages and more without using a session. This can save you a lot of work in some cases. This possiblity is completly browser based, so there is no need for the server to re-identify a user. [...]

Development projects should not be visible for public internet visitors in a lot of cases. Imagine you develop a project for a large company and the Google robots get you for some reason. There will be a lot of visitors who surf on your unfinished blog or website. There are a lot of Maintenence Plugins [...]

Recently I was confronted with some lectures about certain topics relating to Cascading Stylesheets. I decided to write a short summary to remember and use these things as I need them in future projects. 1. CSS-Sprites CSS-Sprites are the idea of using one large as background for multiple graphics on a web page. Relative positioning [...]