I wanted multiple editors in a custom post type that I’m developing in WordPress. I spent my Tuesday cobbling together a solution from articles I found online such as How to Use Multiple WordPress WYSIWYG Visual Editors, Supporting Multiple Visual Editors over at the WordPress Support forum, and a bunch of other links that came up first when I was researching.  I got my multiple editors, but without the Visual/HTML tabs, and without the Media [...]

This article provides a list of 4 core features you should look for in a WordPress backup plugin and recommends two plugins to try out.

Have you ever heard people who upgrade to the latest version of Windows complain about the experience? WordPress isn’t so different. When you update WordPress you can run into incompatibilities in plug-ins, themes, and even your own customizations. WordPress updates are usually trouble-free and will only break very complex or poorly maintained sites. I recommend you wait before updating WordPress.

There are fewer things more annoying about the WordPress platform than watching your carefully-crafted markup go straight to Hell.  If you’ve used WordPress for more than 10 minutes you probably know what I’m talking about. The primary culprit is a filter called wpautop that automatically applies to post and page content. The wpautop filter converts double line breaks to sets of opening and closing paragraph tags.  It works fine if your posts are text only, [...]

I’ve recently been working on a WordPress project in which I made the mistake of starting with a commercial theme that, while beautiful and feature-rich, was a complete mess in terms of code quality. HTML validation is always a requirement on my projects, but a poorly-written WordPress theme combined with WordPress’ own tendency to butcher code by inserting poorly nested <p>’s (more on that later) can make validation a real chore. The W3C’s Validator is [...]