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Month: August 2013

Filter post content before saving

There are times when it feels nice to use the_content filter to make changes in the post content before displaying it to our visitors. But, on certain occasions a more efficient approach would be to filter the content before saving it to database, thus improving the page loading time (less operations on the frontend).

WordCamp Europe 2013

WordCamp Europe 2013 I’ve already booked time, house, flights and bought the ticket to attend  WordCamp Europe 2013 at Leiden! Today I learned that one of the sessions will cover the eternal question about to OOP or not to OOP in the WordPress context. Some love it, some hate it, few understand it. Some won’t develop

Fancy a DB error page

During the last couple of days my hosting provider had been having hiccups with the shared DB connections thus putting all my sites down for a few minutes from time to time. Apart from the support given by the hosting company (which is always fast and keen) this time they couldn’t figure out what was

Introducing XML Sitemap for Stella

On September 2012, during a client’s project kick-off (not finished yet…ouch!) we’ve decided to use the Stella plugin to show the website in 5 different languages (English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and German). The Stella plugin, supported by theme.fm, is a fantastic multi-language WordPress plugin just because it is so easy to install, configure and use! However,

My first post in WordPress 3.6

Well, WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” finally arrived, and I thought maybe it’s time to have my own blog to share what I’m up to, my thoughts, my code snippets, my plugin’s evolutions!   So, upgrade your WordPress  to 3.6 and we’ll see around!