The custom maintenance mode message in WordPress, during upgrades and installs, is far from beautiful 🙂 Time to change that! You can do your own page by adding a pure PHP maintenance.php into your /wp-content folder. Now go and build a nice page ! Just remember that during maintenance no WordPress functionality is available! Enjoy coding …

START SESSION ON INIT add_action(‚init‘, ‚pluginStartSession‘, 1); function pluginStartSession() { if(!session_id()) { session_start(); } } NEW SESSION ON LOGIN / LOGOUT add_action(‚wp_logout‘, ‚pluginEndSession‘); add_action(‚wp_login‘, ‚pluginEndSession‘); function pluginEndSession() { session_destroy (); } Now go ahead and use $_SESSION freely in your plugin. Here a nice additional class to  encrypt session data. Enjoy coding ….

We often have some posts that we would like to promote and keep at the first page of the blog. When you are using pagination, the sticky posts will be added to the standard posts, making the post count per page uneven. If you want to keep your posts per page count consistent, there is […]