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Portugal at WordCamp Europe

Last week, WordCamp Europe folks announced the final speakers’ list and among the 36 speakers there’s a portuguese woman, Mónica Guerra Leiria, stepping up with a presentation about “Between Glorified Computer Interface and Ultimate Narcissist: delivering what the client needs”. When doing client work there is a fine line between what the client wants and

get_page_uri for all types

Lately, I’ve been struggling a lot with permalinks, permastructures, hierarchy slugs, and so on, for a plugin I’m working on. During these days of core reading I’ve bumped into a function called get_page_uri(), a super simple function but still deserving a full post about it. From the Codex you’ll get: Builds and returns a URI for

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