A few months ago I wrote part 1 and part 2 of WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin. Part 1 covered the basics of using the .maintenance file, and part 2 covered styling the maintenance page using wp-content/maintenance.php. Part 3 covers the short comings of the other 2 by addressing how to let[...]
A few days ago I wrote a post about WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin. A common question that I got afterwards was whether or not the maintenance page could be styled. The answer, is yes it can be.
After wp-settings.php determines whether or not to put the blog into maintenance mode it checks[...]
Every so often someone asks a question in the Wordpress IRC channel that sparks my interest, and in this case the core maintenance mode functionality was one of those questions. I’ve known for sometime that WordPress has it’s own maintenance mode functionality since core upgrades were added, however I had never really looked into[...]
Earlier this month I wrote about “Adding Additional Links to the Output from wp_list_pages”. I have recently realized that the process of adding new or additional links could be easier. Rather than manually editing the plugin or function every time you want to add a new link or remove a link we can[...]
One common question in the WordPress IRC Channel is how to add external links, or links to content other than pages, to the output of wp_list_pages, usually not that exactly but that is what they mean. You can of course modify your theme by inserting
<li><a href="http://example.org">Example.org</a></li>
<p> immediately following the wp_list_pages function however, this[...]
