WpRecipes.com - Daily recipes to cook with WordPress

Do you ever wished to be able to list your top contributors without using a plugin? If yes, you’ll be happy with this recipe that will show you how to do it.

For some reason, WordPress uploader won’t let you upload some filetypes, such as Textmate’s .tmCommand. If you need to upload those files to your WordPress blog, here is a very nice snippet that will allow you to do it.

WordPress shortcodes are great, but they have a bad point: When you decide to stop using them, their code stay in your post content. Here is a fix: A simple SQL query to run on your database to get rid of unused shortcodes.

WordPress have a feature which saves various copies of your posts in order to allow you to compare revisions or restore an older version of your posts. This is very useful, but it also take a lot of space in your database. Here is a very handy SQL query that will instantly delete all posts revisions as well as meta associated with it.

Due to its popularity, WordPress is often the target of hackers. Today, let’s see how we can build a plugin that will check for malicious URL requests (Long request strings, presence of either “eval” and “base64″ php functions, etc.) and use it to protect our blog.

If you’re using PDF files on your WordPress blog, it could be very cool to give your users the chance to open them using Google Docs. The following recipe will show you how you can do that.

In WordPress, changing themes are easy. But what when you have to change a theme programmatically? Just read the following recipe to find out. It’s a lot easier than you may think!