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Trash is a new functionality from WordPress 2.9. When an item (post, comment, etc) is deleted, it goes in Trash instead of being permanently removed. Here is a tip to tell your WordPress blog to autmatically empty trash every X days.

Some time ago, I’ve shown you how to insert posts programatically in WordPress database. So now, what about comments? In this recipe I’ll show you

In blogging, it is useful to be able to display your most popular posts. There’s WordPress plugins to do that, but you don’t need it: This code will display your most popular posts, accordoing to the comments count, without requiring you to use a plugin.

Many plugins are made of only *.php files and most of the time they do allow direct access. Depending on what’s in your files that might be a potential security hole. Today’s tip will show you how to prevent direct access to plugin files.

For some reason, you may want to be able to automatically display a custom text below each of your posts. You can hard-code it, but it will be way better to do so using a WordPress hook. Here’s how to do.

Twitter have a really cool built-in function that display time from now, like “3 days ago” or “more than a month ago”. Doing so with WordPress is not hard using some PHP. Here is a function to do so.

If you have contributors to your blog, you probably got annoyed to see that they can’t upload files and images while writing guest posts for you. Today’s recipe will solve the problem, allowing contributors to upload files to your blog.