Tag Archives: Plugin

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Buttonsnap Hack

April 9, 2008 – 3:03 pm

During the upgrade to WordPress version 2.5 I got a "Fatal Error" while trying to activate a plugin. My first thought was that the plugin was not compatible with the new version, so I went to the plugin's page to look for an updated version Subscribe2. But it was compatible. Others had posted comments about [...]

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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 [...]

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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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