Tag Archives: WordPress

Buttonsnap Hack

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 [...]

Clean Options RSS options

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 [...]

WordPress Functions 2.3

WordPress version 2.3 comes with some changes, including changes to script files and the database schema. There is a net increase in the number of classes and functions. WordPress 2.3 has 5 more classes and 126 more functions than does WordPress 2.2
This is a net increase, but it does not mean that only more were [...]