WPMU fast backend switch

Tagged WordPress plugin

I recently converted several simple WordPress installs into a single WPMU install. As I use all of the blogs myself I wanted a quick way to switch between the various backends. This is probably only useful if you don’t have too many blogs and use all of them yourself. The switch links will be added to your super admin menu. (more…)

WordPress 3.0 network lighttpd rewrite rules

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I recently installed my first WordPress network on lighttpd and was looking for rewrite rules. This post is correct except for the rewrite rule for files. I supposed it’s a change that was introduced in 3.0, or maybe earlier. Anyway, here are updated rewrite rules: (more…)

Nesting WordPress loops

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Sometimes it’s useful to put a WordPress loop inside another loop. To do this you’ll have to create a new WP_Query object, as in this example: (more…)

Visitor Movies for WordPress

Tagged WordPress plugin

Did you ever want to know what exactly your visitors are doing on your site? Watch them!

A client of mine wanted a plugin to log what users type into forms. I kind of didn’t see the point at first. But a few days later I was a little annoyed that there was apparently no free alternative to websites like clixpy, clicktale and similar services. (more…)

Convert WordPress pages to posts

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I like WordPress, but I don’t like the WordPress page system at all. That’s why I recently converted all my plugin pages to posts. My main reasons for doing so were: (more…)

Get WordPress comments outside of WordPress

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Sometimes you want to access WordPress content outside of WordPress. There are various pages that explain how to this and it’s really easy to do as well. What I tried to do was a little different though, I wanted to print comments outside of WordPress.

To my surprise wp_list_comments() didn’t output anything inside my custom loop. It turned out that $wp_query->comments was NULL, which I think is rather odd. I would have expected it to be defined like in a normal loop inside WordPress. However, the fix is trivial:
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