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[...]
Recently I have been responding to numerous questions about the update/install functionality in WordPress for core, plugins and soon themes. I wanted to take a few moments to make some clarifications and to inform people of the requirements.
To update the WordPress core or update/install plugins or themes without having to enter your FTP/SSH information[...]
WordPress 2.7 has introduced many new features surrounding comments. Of these is AJAX commenting and threaded comments. To take advantage of the later, you must use a function wp_list_comments instead of the old way of looping through the comments array with a foreach. Weblog Tools Collection has a good how to on[...]
