Tag Archives: Clean Options

Clean Options Translations

June 18, 2009 – 11:03 pm

Please Donate. No, I don't want your money.
But if you are bilingual and fluent in English and another language, I will appreciate your help in providing translations. Beginning with version 1.2.0 the Clean Options plugin has a POT file in it's languages folder.
I can create the MO files, what I need is the language_Country PO [...]

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Alternate Syntax

March 1, 2009 – 2:57 am

Most commonly, the type of argument used in WordPress files for get_option() is a string.
Some files however, use variables. i.e.
$options = array('this', 'that', 'and', 'another');

foreach($options as $option)
{
get_option($option);
}

/* or */

foreach($options as $option)
{
get_option('prefix_' . $option);
}
Because the Clean Options plugin uses regex to gather option names from existing PHP files and compares them to the option_name values in [...]

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Clean Options Plugin Release Candidate

November 20, 2008 – 2:11 am

The first version of the Clean Options plugin became available in April of 2007. Since then there have been a few bug fixes, a few enhancements, a few version compatibility updates, and couple of minor tweaks.
Two issues still remain that could, and will most likely, be handled differently, but it is believed that the current [...]

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Clean Options RSS options

October 19, 2007 – 11:41 pm

The Clean Options plugin lists options named "rss_(hash value)" and "rss_(hash value)_ts". Where do these options come from? Wordpress uses the fetch_rss function to get content from RSS feeds. For example, the dashboard uses fetch_rss() to get incoming links, dev news (wordpress.org/development/feed/), and planet news (planet.wordpress.org/feed/).
The fetch_rss function uses Magpie to cache the feed contents [...]

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Clean Options and Speed

September 25, 2007 – 2:13 am

In the blog article The 3 Easiest Ways to Speed Up WordPress, John Pozadzides discusses improving page load time. The Clean Options plugin can help by removing unnecessary rows from the wp_options table. How much does this speed up queries? Relatively, probably not much unless you have many excess rows. But then again, why make [...]

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