Transients or Object Cache: Which One Your Site Actually Needs
On a default WordPress installation without external caching software, calling set_transient writes records directly into the wp_options database table.
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Plugins, core behaviour and the parts of WordPress that only show themselves when something breaks.
WordPressWP-Cron Is Not Cron, and on a Quiet Site It Barely Runs
WordPress ties background execution directly to incoming web traffic.
Registering a Custom Post Type Without Reaching for a Plugin
WordPress requires custom post types to be registered on the init hook, where a single function call ties a 20-character database key to an array of runtime settings.
WordPress currently holds 18 pages. They are dated 2007 to 2026. Nothing is filed here because it was popular. A page joins this section when it answers a question that came up while something was actually being built.
Every version, date and default quoted in this section is carried over from published documentation. None of it is estimated, and none of it is refreshed to look current. What this section does not do: rank tools against each other, publish sponsored recommendations, or update an old page’s figures so it reads as new.
Everything filed under this heading is on this page, newest at the top. There is no featured slot and no pagination to click through. If a subject here is also covered from another angle, the link to it is in the body of the page rather than in a strip of recommendations underneath. The most recent of them is WP-Cron Is Not Cron, and on a Quiet Site It Barely Runs, published 2026-09-29.
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How to Safely Turn Off WordPress Automatic Updates
The WordPress codebase separates core updates from extension updates, yet many site administrators still treat background updates as a single switch.
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Debugging a White Screen Without Taking the Site Down Again
A production WordPress site serving an entirely blank page cannot be diagnosed by flipping basic error switches in the open.
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Autoloaded Options Are Quietly Slowing Your WordPress Site
Every time WordPress handles a request, it runs a database query to pull every single row marked autoload = yes from the wp_options table directly into server memory.
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A Minimal WordPress Plugin That Is Actually Correct
Building a standalone WordPress plugin requires far fewer lines of code than most developers assume.
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WordPress Contributors on a World Map
Update: Yeah, looks like a few folks are missing. I’ll look into it!
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WordPress Plugin: Pocket Read It Later Links
Latest version: 1.0 - Released June 15th, 2025: Initial release. This plugin allows you to display Pocket 'Read It Later' links next to each post on your blog.
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WordPress Plugin: Feed Thumbnails
Latest version: 1.2 - Released July 4th, 2010 Bugfix for the Get The Image plugin integration.
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WordPress Plugin: Instapaper ‘Read Later’ Links
Latest version: 1.2 - Released June 15th, 2025: Update to the new style button from Instapaper.
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WordPress Plugin: Plugin Info
Latest version: 0.8.2 - Released January 7th, 2014 Remove some now-redundant processing of the screenshot URLs.
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WordPress Plugin: Image Upload HTTP Error Fix
This plugin is extremely old, no longer maintained and should no longer be used. Fixes the media uploader HTTP Error that some WordPress configurations suffer from.
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WordPress Plugin: Google AJAX Libraries API
Important: This plugin is no longer being updated. It has been superceded by the good work of Jason Penney with his Use Google Libraries WordPress plugin which uses code based on this plugin.
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WordPress Plugin: Head Meta – Add Anything to the <head> of a Post
Latest version: 0.2 – Released 21 March 2007 Ever wanted to add things such as JavaScript or meta data to the <head> of a page when you’re writing a post?
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WordPress Plugin: Pretty Media
I’ve just published a small plugin which makes the Media screen in WordPress prettier using just CSS.
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WordPress Plugin: MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosure Support and Character Encoding Issues
Latest version: 1.2 – Released 16th December 2008 ∇ In this writing: Description Is this plugin for me?
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A History of WordPress Contributors
∇ In this writing: Contributors by Version Version Involvement Total Contributors And Finally Stats Elsewhere Comments (3) Powered by SEO TOC 1.7.3 I thought I’d run some stats on WordPress contributors over the years.