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Meet wpshell – the power of WordPress at your prompt

November 13, 2011 by Thorsten 6 Comments

Developing in WordPress is a lot of fun for me and there are great plugins that make developing and debugging WordPress code really simple. Debug-Bar, Debug-Bar-Extender and Debug-Console are my favorite WordPress plugins to do this. But if you really live in WordPress code all day long you might sometimes wish that you can just […]

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Development

debugging, featured, wordpress cli, wordpress debugging, wordpress shell, wpshell

Handle big/automated WXR exports with the WordPress CLI Exporter

November 8, 2011 by Thorsten 5 Comments

If you run a big site or many blogs and would like to create some automated exports or run into memory/runtime issues with the web based exporter then this wrapper around the existing web-based WordPress exporter will likely help you out here. Grab the file from https://github.com/tott/WordPress-CLI-Exporter and copy it to your WordPress root folder […]

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Snippets

cli export, export, wordpress cli export, wordpress export, wxr

Reducing postmeta queries with update_meta_cache()

November 1, 2011 by Thorsten 4 Comments

Various themes and plugins make heavy use of postmeta data. Usually the way it’s implemented would create one database query for every meta value you request. This can easily pile up and create a huge amount of queries when this is used in a loop. The following snippet added to your themes’ functions.php file should […]

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caching, performance, post meta, postmeta, update_meta_cache

CLI based WordPress imports

October 19, 2011 by Thorsten 4 Comments

I frequently need to import client content and I usually do it a couple of times so a CLI version of the importer is much more useful for me than the web interface. I guess many of you have the same issue so I published my current work in progress for a CLI wrapper around […]

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wordpress cli import, wordpress-importer

Caching WordPress navigation menus – wp_nav_menu() wrapper

October 7, 2011 by Thorsten 7 Comments

Navigation menus in WordPress are a great thing, sadly they are usually not performing very well and you might want to cache them. Here’s a small set of functions that allow you to cache the output of the navigation menus. Please note the inline comments in case your navigation menus have different layouts depending on […]

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