Category: WordPress

Complete List of Default WordPress Files

When cleaning up hacked sites and testing .htaccess tricks, it’s nice to have a list of WordPress directory and file names for checking patterns and finding strings directly via Search/Find. Especially when working remotely, having a complete list of WordPress files available online can help expedite the attack-recovery process.

Jeff Starr shares the list of WordPress files which is more complete than the one found in the Codex. Files for WordPress version 3.3.2 are grouped by directory and are preceded by the list of directories themselves. A very convenient, well organized reference for any WordPress site owner.

17 Must Have Premium eCommerce WordPress Plugins

This post discusses WordPress plugins that let you perform the following tasks:
Show products via slider.
Integrate Cart to a theme.
Embed Amazon style Wish-list.
Display random products.
Add credit card payment gateway to your website.
Add earnings graph.
Embed PayPal.
MailChimp integrated Subscribe checkbox.
Automatic postage calculation
Add donation system.
And much more…

Creating a custom WordPress theme options page | Webdesigner Depot

Whether you’re developing WordPress themes for yourself, for a client, or to sell commercially, having the ability to customize aspects of your theme via the WordPress control panel makes your theme infinitely flexible and many times more versatile and appealing.
The methods discussed here will only apply to WordPress 2.8 or above. There are a number of other tutorials available if you’re using an older version of WordPress

The WPMU 100 – The Top WordPress Related Blogs On The Internet

The WPMU 100 – The Top WordPress Related Blogs On The Internet
http://wpmu.org/the-wpmu-100-the-top-wordpress-related-blogs-on-the-internet/
February 7, 2012 | By Tom Ewer
The 100 published by WPMU is not intended to represent the views or opinions of WPMU.org. The ranking algorithm is based upon publicly available data and is completely objective.

Use Linux Cron to Trigger WordPress Cron Scheduler

Ever ran into a situation where your scheduled post does not publish or a scheduled backup does not happen in time? Makes you want to talk to the host, does not it? But before you do so, make sure that your problem site does not suffer from extremely low traffic. If there are just a handful of visitors coming to your site daily, this is the root of the problem. WordPRess and its plugins schedule tasks with a pseudo-cron service that does not work the same way as the real cron on Linux. WordPress needs someone to actually visit the web site to trigger a cron; Linux cron always run on time no matter what.

The problem got really annoying when I worked on a staging server with next to no traffic but still need regular backups. For a while I resorted to backing up files and databases manually, and it was far from ideal.

Luckily, I came across a great solution to the WordPress cron problem posted by Ryann on the Pogidude Studio blog. All you have to do is create a real cron job that simulates a visitor thus triggering the WordPress cron process. Ryann’s example is for cPanel but will work for any type of a control panel as long as your host allows you create cron jobs. WordPress’ own cron process will need to be disabled so it does not trigger itself with real visitors.