Tags: wp

after working on a few wordpress based projects, i have come to conclusion that you can't run a site with it out-of-box. it only has the basic features. eventually users will want something more than the built-in's. this is where plugins come in. sinc… more »

there are a few reasons why i don't like automatic upgrade. it updates the site directly. even though there are backups, it's a pain to roll back if something went wrong. it also doesn't work on servers that doesn't have internet presence. there's manu… more »

i know there are plugins for maintenance mode. i found a 3-part tutorial that shows how easy this can be done with just 2 files. this post simply documents how this can be achieved for my own reference and is based on this tutorial. the 2 files require… more »

i came across a problem when all sections that display custom menu (via function call wp_nav_menu()) are not displayed in 404 page. after some research, i found a solution. it's to do with permalinks. there's a bug reported since V286. it's still happ… more »

when deploying a site (and database) from development to production, when going to the production the site goes back to development. that's because in wordpress, site url is defined and saved in database by default. according to the official document,… more »