Category Archives: WordPress

WordPress Stats Teaser

By Dan Cole | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ve begun working on a Python program that does data-mining and graphing. It’s not yet completed, but I wanted to do a little teaser of things to come. Below is a bar graph of all of the comments made in WordPress Trac on the weekday they were made. Take from it was you wish. The data [...]
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How do WordPress Hooks Work?

By Dan Cole | Published: June 20, 2009
Why were WordPress hook created? Why do we need them? WordPress hooks solve a fundamental problem with dynamic function calls in PHP: How do you insert 3rd party functions with a static function call? But also, how do you use one single call to include an unknown number of functions? What are functions and function calls? Looking into [...]
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Standard Theme Hook Names

By Dan Cole | Published: May 19, 2009
To make customizing WordPress themes easier, theme developers have started to include hooks in their themes. They are often referred to as WordPress Hooks, because they use WordPress function to manage them and do the heavy work, but they aren’t bounded by any naming convention or locations in the WordPress Software or any of its [...]
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WordPess Theme Modifications

By Dan Cole | Published: May 19, 2009
Earlier this year it was predicted that theme frameworks were going to be the big thing on the block and with that came child-themes. As with anything, there are different view points as to what a WordPress themes should be, what frameworks should do, and how to modify themes. This has lead to some interesting [...]
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