Simon Wheatley

Tag: plugin

  • A plugin to clear recalcitrant caches from inside WP Engine

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    We’re using WP Engine to host various clients, notably the Rolling Stones site, and we’ve been very pleased with both the service and the performance of their hosting platform. There’s always something though, isn’t there? I don’t think I’d really be happy if there wasn’t. In this case it’s the fact the Varnish caching layer…

  • Issues with embedding Vimeo videos with HTTPS URLs

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    As documented in WordPress trac ticket #20102, there is an issue with oEmbeds from some services which have started allowing/using https URLs rather than http URLs. The ticket documents an issue with the oEmbed functionality, oEmbed is the technology which allows you to paste a YouTube URL into your blog and have that converted to…

  • Page load hooks in the WordPress admin area

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    There are a number of really handy hooks, each of which are specific to a page in the WordPress admin area. You can use these action hooks to enqueue scripts on particular pages, to process form requests, etc, etc. Despite these hooks being so handy, and despite using them a great deal, every time I…

  • Interspersing your post listing with date headers in WordPress

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    Update: OK, so at least one person wanted it as a plugin, so feel free to download Intermittent Date Headers. Here’s a code snippet that’s not really worth making into a plugin. It’s designed to put date headers into your main post listing page. As an example, you could end up with: Heading: March, 2008 Post: dated…