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July 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Know your WordPress using the WP_DEBUG option

If you’re into WordPress I’m sure you tried already all sorts of plugins and themes.What you might not be familiar with is the WP_DEBUG option. It raises the error reporting level to include warning messages that may be lurking around and that you haven’t been told about, e.g. deprecated functions being called or variables not being initialized. This happens because the default error reporting level of WordPress doesn’t include everything it could, I guess because some people don’t care or don’t know what to do with these messages. But it is good practice to have this option enabled in your development environment as any WordPress core developer or plugin/theme author will tell you.

It’s very simple to activate, just add to your wp-config.php file the following:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

But don’t do it in your site, otherwise you won’t be the only one looking at the warnings :|

http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

June 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply

Turn off Sending Emails to New Users in WordPress Mu

“WordPress automatically sends an email with the password to new users. How can we disable this feature?”

I’ve seen this question being asked around (e.g. here) and couldn’t find a helpful reply anywhere.

I had this same problem and since I couldn’t find a clean way of doing it I had to comment a line in one of the core files. In the file wp-includes/pluggable.php, function wp_new_user_notification(), you can comment the last line that reads:
wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), $blogname), $message);

I would love a cleaner way of doing this, if you know one please let me know!

Note that with upgrades you will lose this change. Unfortunately there seems to be no way around this until WordPress supports a filter or some other mechanism to do it in a cleaner way.

Also note that this is different from disabling new user notifications that are sent to the admin email, for that there is an option in the admin panel.

This was done against WordPress Mu 2.9.2. Your mileage may vary of course! :)
June 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply

The Future of WordPress Video

Much to my amazement I was featured in Scott Berkun’s talk about the future of WordPress at the WordCamp San Francisco 2010 (around minute 33:36). Scott is a great speaker and a world reference in the technology world so I was very happy that he considered my input of enough value to be included.

Thanks Scott!
April 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

The Future of WordPress

Scott Berkun will talk about the future of WordPress at the WordCamp San Francisco 2010. He is asking for suggestions on things to talk so if you have any ideas head here. On the other hand, you can read upon my suggestions there or here:

1) Keep the Simplicity – My greatest fear with WordPress is that people won’t stop adding more things to it. I like its smallness. The merging of WordPress MU in the upcoming 3.0 version is just one example of the unnecessary growing complexity of the WordPress code base.

2) Be more Open – Automattic keeps control of the only official plugin repository and WordPress only works with it. Reminds me of the Apple App Store and I for sure don’t want anything like that for WordPress.

Nuno Morgadinho, and João Leitão are discussing. Toggle Comments
- João Leitão 3:25 pm on April 14, 2010 Permalink
  
  o que é que pensas disto nuno?
- Nuno Morgadinho 4:10 pm on May 9, 2010 Permalink
  
  Fui eu que escrevi João, por isso concordo :)
March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
Support Fernando Nobre

For the 2011 Portuguese Presidential elections I will be supporting Fernando Nobre. Not that anyone cares but I thought I should mention it. For that reason I’ve added to my blog a small support banner linking to the campaign site.

I’ve also been thinking how I can contribute and help with the campaign, and how to enable people that are interested in helping out to do so effectively, besides the obvious sign-up for voluntary help at the campaign site.

If you have a WordPress blog, I’ve made public a widget you can use on the sidebar of your blog to display a small image banner just like the one I’m using. It’s an easy way of showing our support and it’s very easy to install:
1. Inside the WordPress admin, go to Plugins -> Add New and search for ‘Fernando Nobre’.
2. Click ‘Install’.
3. Inside the WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Widgets, and add the ‘Apoio Fernando Nobre’ widget where you want, then save the changes.
4. That’s it!
And here’s the link to the plugin page:
- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/support-fernando-nobre/
Nuno Morgadinho, and João Craveiro are discussing. Toggle Comments
- João Craveiro 12:31 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink
  
  Sugestão: imagem optimizada para o tamanho em que está. O texto é ilegível.
- João Craveiro 12:58 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink
  
  Like this:
- João Craveiro 12:59 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink
  
  (Damn typo) Like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384336/FN-optimized.png
- Nuno Morgadinho 8:17 am on March 16, 2010 Permalink
  
  João, thanks for the optimized image, it’s a lot better. I will add it to the plugin. Thanks again